GOP Poised To Confirm Anti-Voting Rights Extremist To Lead DOJ's Civil Rights Division

WASHINGTON — The Senate is on the verge of confirming Harmeet Dhillon to lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, putting someone who has spent years attacking voting rights, abortion rights and LGBTQ rights in charge of protecting those rights for millions of Americans.

Republicans advanced Dhillon’s nomination on Wednesday, clearing a procedural hurdle in a 52-45 vote along party lines. Dhillon now awaits a Thursday vote to be confirmed, which, barring something extraordinary, is all but certain given that no GOP senators have raised concerns with her.

Dhillon, a far-right conservative attorney and former California Republican Party official, has been President Donald Trump’s legal adviser for the last four years. During his 2020 campaign, she perpetuated his lie that the election was stolen from him due to widespread voter fraud, which did not exist. She did TV interviews falsely claiming there was persistent voter fraud in Pennsylvania, a state that Trump legitimately lost to Joe Biden.

Her law firm, Dhillon Law Group, over the years has filed more than a dozen lawsuits across eight states aimed at challenging voting rights, election processes or the ability of Trump to appear on 2024 ballots in states that disqualified him because of his role in inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.


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