Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski breaks ranks and votes to confirm Biden DOJ nominee who supports defunding the police and giving more power to BLM Senate confirmed Joe Biden's nominee for associate attorney general, the Number 3 post at DOJ that oversees civil rights and police reform Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski broke ranks and voted for Vanita Gupta Gupta was confirmed on a narrow 51-49 vote after much GOP opposition 'I am going to give the benefit of the doubt to a woman who I believe has demonstrated throughout her professional career to be deeply, deeply committed to matters of justice,' Murkowski said