Trump nominates conservative culture warrior to lead DOJ's civil rights division
President-elect Donald Trump tapped Harmeet Dhillon, a Republican lawyer known for championing conservative causes and the Republican national committeewoman for California, to lead the U.S.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump tapped Harmeet Dhillon, a Republican lawyer known for championing conservative causes and the GOP national committeewoman for California, to lead the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
Trump announced Dhillon’s nomination as assistant attorney general, writing on social media that she has “stood up consistently to protect our cherished Civil Liberties.” Trump lauded Dhillon’s track record of taking on Big Tech companies, her defense of religious freedoms, and “suing corporations who use woke policies to discriminate against their workers.”
During the first Trump administration, Dhillon gained prominence as a Republican advocate in liberal San Francisco. She argued on behalf of Trump supporters, who said they were attacked by protesters and that their conservative beliefs were causing them to be persecuted.
In 2016, she sued the city of San Jose, Calif., on behalf of Trump supporters who were attacked by counterprotesters, saying that city officials’ “inaction was colored by political viewpoint considerations.”
Dhillon also represented a Google employee who was fired after he circulated a memo arguing that men are naturally better suited for tech jobs than women due to biological differences. Google paired “open hostility for conservative thought” with discriminatory policies that harm white men, she wrote in a lawsuit against the tech giant.
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