Harmeet Dhillon exits after radical overhaul of Justice Department's Civil Rights Division
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Harmeet Dhillon, a conservative attorney who oversaw a radical reshaping of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, celebrated the mass departures of career lawyers and spearheaded sweeping...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Harmeet Dhillon, a conservative attorney who oversaw a radical reshaping of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, celebrated the mass departures of career lawyers and spearheaded sweeping investigations into elite universities, said Thursday that she had resigned from her post.
Dhillon had been a powerful and divisive figure inside President Donald Trump’s Justice Department since her confirmation last year as assistant attorney general, where she dramatically changed the direction of a division created during the country’s Civil Rights Movement to protect the rights of minorities.
“We ushered in the downfall of illegal DEI, we fought to protect women and girls’ sports, and so much more," Dhillon said in a social media post announcing her departure, using the acronym for diversity, equity and inclusion. She called serving in the position “the honor of a lifetime.”
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