President Biden’s nominee to run the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was just confirmed by a 51-48. Senator Susan Collins voted along with Democrats to confirm Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to lead the division and will now serve as assistant attorney general of civil rights.

Fox News reports:

Clarke’s nomination was voted out of committee in a split 11-11 tie vote that ran down partisan lines.

Executive nominees like Clarke can be confirmed by a simple majority vote. The Senate invoked cloture in a 51-48 vote earlier Tuesday to end debate and move to a final vote later in the afternoon.

The Civil Rights Division under Clarke is expected to investigate policing throughout the country, already leading civil investigations into the Minneapolis Police Department and a probe in Louisville, Ky., where Breonna Taylor was killed. And as a number of states move to enact voting restrictions, the department is expected to investigate voting laws for discrimination under the Voting Rights Act.

Clarke’s confirmation was controversial because of her prolific Twitter use, where she would often launch broadsides against some senators, including Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. Clarke also has a history of controversial writings, including a 2020 Newsweek op-ed headlined: “I Prosecuted Police Killings. Defund the Police—But Be Strategic.”

The vote was held on the anniversary of George Floyd’s death and she previously served in former President Obama’s Justice Department.