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The home of Jeffrey Clark, a Department of Justice lawyer, was searched by federal law enforcement agents on Wednesday.
Jeffrey Clark spoke at a news conference.
The New York Times reported that the search of Clark's home was tied to the DOJ's probe into the push to reverse former President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss.
According to William Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in D.C., there was law enforcement activity near Lorton, Virginia, where Clark lives, but he did not comment on the nature of the activity or its targets.
Clark and his attorney have been contacted by Forbes.
Clark was appointed head of the DOJ's civil division in the final months of the Trump administration. According to a Senate Judiciary Committee investigation, Clark pushed the DOJ to back up Trump's voter fraud claims after he lost the election. The idea of sending a letter to legislators in Georgia to encourage them to pick a new president was rejected by senior DOJ leaders. The DOJ's leadership threatened mass resignations at the agency's top levels when Trump contemplated making Clark attorney general in the last weeks of his term.
The January 6 committee hearing will look at Trump's efforts to pressure the DOJ into helping him overturn the 2020 election results. The Senate Judiciary Committee found that Trump and his allies repeatedly urged the department to open voter fraud investigations.
Clark was subpoenaed by the January 6 committee but he argued that the information was protected by both attorney-client privilege and executive privilege. After the committee voted to recommend contempt of Congress charges, Clark sat for a deposition, but he pleaded the Fifth Amendment over and over again.
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