Republican senators are raising concerns about Vanita Gupta, a Biden nominee for a top position in the Justice Department, claiming she “misled” them while under oath this month.

President Joe Biden nominated Gupta, the CEO of the left-of-center Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and former head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division during the Obama administration, to be his associate attorney general.

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