Biden's picks for key Justice Department posts face confirmation scrutiny 08 Mar 2021 - 13:56 File photo: President of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Vanita Gupta speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement Accountability at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S. June 10, 2020. Michael Reynolds/Pool via Reuters/File Photo By Sarah N. Lynch | Reuters Washington: In her first big civil rights case after law school, Vanita Gupta two decades ago challenged the wrongful drug convictions of dozens of Black residents of the Texas Panhandle city of Tulia, all of which hinged on faulty testimony by an undercover police officer with a checkered past.