President Bill Clinton nominated Deval Patrick, a Boston lawyer, as the Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights in his third attempt to fill the post, Reuter reports from Washington. Mr Patrick, who once worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's legal fund in New York, would be the chief enforcer of the nation's civil rights laws.
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