"We don't just slow down the woke. We take up the cause to achieve the executive branch's goals,” Harmeet Dhillon said in 2025.
But now she’s resigned.
She’s fleeing the DOJ now that Democrats will have the power to investigate her abuses of power and astonishingly cruel failures.
On Thursday, Trump loyalist Harmeet Dhillon resigned as Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. She is the first senior Trump administration official to leave after his party got brutally rejected by America in the midterms.
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Called “the most destructive, lawless, and hateful head of the Civil Rights Division in DOJ history” in a statement by Stacey Young, a former Civil Rights Division attorney, Dhillon led Civil Rights division that ignored the shooting of
Dhillion “radically reshaped the Civil Rights Division, pushing out roughly 300 attorneys, hiring inexperienced ideological allies to replace them and using the division’s enforcement powers to advance President Trump’s MAGA agenda,” NPR reported.
Dhillion thought the Civil Rights division was only protecting people of color and she sought to change that.