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Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are leaving the Justice Department’s civil rights division, as veterans of the office say they have been driven out by Trump administration officials who want to drop its traditional work to aggressively pursue cases against the Ivy League, other schools and liberal cities.The wave of departures has only accelerated in recent days, as the administration reopened its “deferred resignation program,” which would allow employees to resign but continue to be paid for a period of time. The offer, for those who work in the division, expires on Monday. More than 100 lawyers are...

The new head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division is dramatically reshaping the office to propel President Donald Trump’s social agenda, prompting the departure of about half of the division’s lawyers in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the situation and public statements from top officials. Since being sworn in this month, civil rights director Harmeet K. Dhillon has redirected her staff to focus on combating antisemitism, anti-Christian bias, the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports, and what Trump and his allies have described as Democrat’s “woke ideology.” The division changed mission statements across its sections to...

A single Republican senator — Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) — voted against the nomination of Harmeet Dhillon to serve as assistant attorney general, veering away from the rest of her GOP colleagues who voted in favor. After her nomination in December, lawmakers finally held a formal vote Thursday and Dhillon was approved in a 52-45 vote. However, Murkowski opposed the nomination and sided with Democrats. President Donald Trump announced in December the nomination of Dhillon to work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. “Throughout her career, Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our...

The Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a prominent pro-life attorney, as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday The vote marks a significant shift in the agency’s approach to civil rights enforcement under the Trump administration. The vote, which followed party lines with Republicans approving and Democrats voting no, ended with a 52-45 tally, with three senators absent. Dhillon, nominated by President Donald Trump in December 2024, pledged during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in February to end what she described as the targeting of pro-life Christians by the DOJ. Her appointment replaces...

Harmeet Dhillon, the attorney nominated to lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, said in her confirmation hearing on Wednesday that corporations that use diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) racial quotas could be prosecuted under federal civil rights law.In an exchange with Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., Dhillon was asked about a 2023 initiative from retail corporation Target to hire 20 percent more black employees, in what Schmitt said was an “overt racial quota system” prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.“Senator, if the facts are as you just described them, I believe that practice is...

The very idea of any prosecutor releasing a smear “report” on a defendant he was unable to convict, should be repugnant to any lawyer who believes in the integrity of our criminal justice system. Instead we have gloating trolls cheerleading such a disgusting abuse of process. ... Multiple accounts that Smith is preparing a report and that Garland will release it publicly, all before the inauguration.. ~Harry Litman ... Norm Eisen (Obama’s former “ethics” czar) has been running a color revolution on Trump since 2016/17. That includes the fake impeachments, character assassination, and lawfare. Everyone should know Norm’s name. He...

The “election integrity lawyer” for the Republican Party in Arizona, Kory Langhofer, has resigned. This means that 3 days before mail in ballots are dropping in Arizona, the AZGOP and TeamTrump don’t have a lawyer to fight election fraud in Arizona.. Kory resigned TODAY and his resignation will go into effect on Wednesday, October 9, 2024 (the same day that early voting begins in Arizona). He resigned because he was unwilling to file a lawsuit over the 218,000 unconfirmed US citizen (illegal aliens) voters that Adrian Fontes , the anti-Trump Democrat Secretary of State in Arizona, has refused to remove...

A mass voter fraud scheme allegedly involving fraudulent registration forms across multiple Pennsylvania counties was thwarted in the lead-up to Election Day. Local officials are pointing to a Democrat-aligned firm from Arizona run by a Kamala Harris supporter as the culprit orchestrating it. Monroe County Following a routine review of voter registration applications and mail-in ballot requests, the Monroe County Board of Elections identified approximately 30 "irregular" forms, the county's district attorney, Mike Mancuso, a Democrat, announced ... The matter was then referred to Mancuso's office for further investigation. Several of these suspicious forms were found to be fraudulent "as...

Maricopa County officials just revealed that some of the 40,000 incomplete or damaged voter registration forms they received on registration deadline day included fraudulent registrations "Voter registration forms that tried to register Mickey Mouse, Jerry Seinfeld, Donald Duck, among others. This put a lot of pressure on the staff." "This does include one of the groups that has made news in Pennsylvania, and it is a group that we have worked with before and we have admonished them to submit better voter registration forms" This is not a coincidence. The upcoming Trump DOJ needs to prosecute every single bad actor...

America First Legal won big today in a lawsuit against Arizona’s Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. The Superior Court of Arizona ordered Secretary Fontes to release the list of up to 218,000 registered voters who did not provide proof of citizenship as required by law. Secretary Fontes must release the list by Monday. Fontes previously claimed a computer glitch allowed more than 200,000 people in Arizona to register without proof of citizenship so America First Legal sued him on behalf of Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona, known as “EZAZ.org.” “At trial, Secretary Fontes testified that his office only possesses...

Honored to serve. I’ve already spoken to most of the movers & shakers in AZ, and I’m heading there shortly after fulfilling another campaign duty in another part of the country. Have laptop, will travel! I look forward to working w/ our AZ legal colleagues already on the ground .... happy to see the RNC become so proactive on election integrity. It is way easier to prevent voter fraud than it is to deal with its aftermath.

If you want to know the real history of Kamala Harris, Tucker hosts Harmeet Dhillon, a conservative California Indian-American attorney whose career spans the same time and place as Kamala's. Plenty of juicy biographical details which no one else has reported on Highly recommended.

Arizona Democrat Representative and Senate candidate Ruben Gallego, whose father is a convicted Mexican drug trafficker, continues to come under fire over his ties to the cartels as newly discovered arrest records and details about his father come to surface. The Gateway Pundit reported that the Democrat Senate hopeful’s scandalous family ties were rehashed by a reporter during a press conference last week. While admitting that his father is a convicted drug trafficker, Gallego did not deny his “connection to drug cartels” when asked by a reporter. ... In 2008, Gallego changed his name from MarineLarena to Gallego to hide...

The Trump campaign, Republican National Committee, and Arizona GOP announced that Harmeet Dhillon is leading an election integrity legal team in Arizona. Dhillon is the managing partner at Dhillon Law Group and the RNC National Committeewoman for California. The campaign and Republican parties announced her new leadership position on Tuesday. "We are proud to announce President Trump’s appointment of Harmeet Dhillon as our new legal counsel in Arizona," Trump campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita and RNC Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump said in a statement Tuesday. "She will spearhead critical legal battles, stop the many attacks...

Fox News sent a cease and desist letter to Tucker Carlson, demanding that their former host stop publishing “Tucker on Twitter.” This follows the network’s claim that Carlson violated his contract by posting his first straight-to-camera monologue on the social media platform on June 6. Reportedly, despite being off the air, Carlson is still under contract with Fox through Dec. 31, 2024. It is not clear whether this means Fox owns Carlson’s ability to express his views on current events. Plenty of journalists and political commentators post their opinions and analysis on Twitter in addition to the content they create...

"...presenting Layla’s parents with the false dilemma that: 'would they rather have a live son, or a dead daughter?'" A teenager is suing a health care company and the doctors who put her on controversial puberty-blocking drugs at age 12 and removed her healthy breasts in a double-mastectomy surgery when she was just 13 years old, accusing them of “intentional fraud and concealment.” Layla Jane, an 18-year-old detransitioner represented by attorney Harmeet Dhillon, claims in a letter of intent to sue that she was rushed into the life-altering medical services while she and her family were not properly informed of...

After nearly two months of barbs and accusations, a major fight for the future of the Republican Party concludes Friday at a luxury seaside resort in southern California’s Orange County. That’s where the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) 168 members, gathering for their annual winter meeting, will hold a secret ballot vote for the national party’s next chair. On the eve of the highly anticipated vote, one of the most popular politicians in the GOP weighed-in on the race, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for "a change" and urged "new blood" at the RNC. The conservative governor, whose seen his...

On Friday, the Republican National Committee will vote to reject or reelect Ronna McDaniel as the party’s chair. I wanted to let the dust settle before writing about it, preferring to take a bigger look at the state of things and consider it alongside the battle in the House over the speakership. But two things happened today that upped the ante and are worth touching on in brief. First, in an interview with Charlie Kirk, Gov. Ron DeSantis weighed in against McDaniel from Florida and said it is time for new leadership. He accurately summarized her tenure as a disappointment....

On January 24, 2023, supporters of Harmeet Dhillon's bid to chair the Republican National Committee rallied at the Waldorf Astoria Resort in Dana Point, Calif., where the committee is meeting. Ronna McDaniel, the current chairwoman, is fighting to keep her seat. The committee will make its choice on Friday, January 27.