On Sunday, the Daily Wire dropped an exclusive report by Mary Margaret Olohan reporting that the current chief of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights division, Harmeet Dhillon, is to be promoted by President Trump to the position of Associate Attorney General - one of the top spots in the DOJ.
The president plans to nominate Dhillon to be associate attorney general, a move up from her position as the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, a source familiar said on Saturday evening. Stanley Woodward, who held the leadership position, resigned from the department earlier on Saturday, the source said.
The move marks a major move up the Justice Department ranks for Dhillon, who was sworn in as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division in April 2025.
Dhillon has brought some high-profile actions while heading up the Civil Rights division, including suing states for refusing to hand over statewide voter registration lists, as well as for Title IX violations, including most notably allowing boys to compete on girls' sports teams in the schools.
The news comes amid reshuffling of top DOJ officials following the president’s decision to remove Bondi. Trump met Bondi before his Wednesday evening speech and told her that she was being replaced, The Daily Wire reported earlier this week.
Todd Blanche is serving as the acting attorney general, and could remain in that role for quite some time, a source familiar with the president’s thinking shared on Saturday, noting that the president has no plans to nominate anyone else right at this time.
Harmeet Dhillon has something of a reputation for being a "go-get 'em" type, which may be just what is needed right now to help with President Trump's swamp-draining efforts.
The Daily Wire exclusive goes on to describe more of Harmeet Dhillon's background:
Prior to the time at the Justice Department, Dhillon made a name for herself in the conservative movement through her work at her legal firm, Dhillon Law Group, where she represented Americans like pro-life undercover journalist David Daleiden and detransitioner Chloe Cole in free speech and civil rights cases. She was also a major force in Republican campaign and election law.
“Among her many notable cases, Ms. Dhillon brought legal challenges against the University of California, Berkeley over its free speech policy, against an Antifa organization for an assault on a conservative journalist, against several states for their restrictive responses to Covid-19, and against various large tech companies for a host of civil rights issues,” her DOJ bio states.
Dhillon also represented RedState's Managing Editor, Jennifer Van Laar, when she was targeted by former Democrat congresswoman Katie Hill after publishing a series exposing Hill's sexual relationship with an employee; the lawsuit tested California's "revenge porn" statute, and Dhillon successfully argued that the First Amendment protected Van Laar and RedState's reporting.
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As of this writing, President Trump has not indicated his intention to nominate a permanent replacement for the former Attorney General, Pam Bondi. There are rumors that she was dismissed due to the president's frustration with the lack of prosecutions in the various lawfare cases between his two terms.
We don't know yet what kind of portfolio Harmeet Dhillon will be handed in this new job, but it's sure to be interesting. If her past performance is any indication, whatever she is given to do, it's a safe bet that she'll go after it like a wolf after a hare.
(NOTE: This piece was edited post-publication for clarity.)
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