Harmeet Dhillon resigns as civil rights assistant attorney general
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Harmeet Dhillon resigned Thursday as assistant attorney general for civil rights, sources said, leaving the Justice Department days after Republicans lost control of the House and Senate in the midterms.

Dhillon had led the Civil Rights Division since April 2025. Before the vote, she defended the Trump administration’s investigation into noncitizen voting, rejecting claims in a televised interview that the effort was designed to undermine faith in elections.

“It’s not to sow distrust. The distrust is there,” Dhillon said, adding that such crimes were being prosecuted in volume for the first time and noting the Biden administration charged 13 people.

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