President-elect Donald Trump has picked California Attorney Harmeet Dhillon to serve as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Evan Symon of the California Globe reports that over the past several years Dhillon;
helped lead lawsuits over California violating federal law over not verifying voter citizenship, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, sued the state and Governor Gavin Newsom over COVID school closings and re-openings, as well as over the state giving unemployment funds to illegal immigrants. She even made national headlines once again for helping defeat an outdoor dining ban in Los Angeles County in 2020. In addition, she started up her non-profit group, Center for American Liberty in 2018, taking on many cases that involved violations of free speech and civil liberties.
“Throughout her career, Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our cherished Civil Liberties, including taking on Big Tech for censoring our Free Speech, representing Christians who were prevented from praying together during COVID, and suing corporations who use woke policies to discriminate against their workers,” said President-elect Trump on Tuesday. “In her new role at the DOJ, Harmeet will be a tireless defender of our Constitutional Rights, and will enforce our Civil Rights and Election Laws fairly and firmly.”
“This is the woman who fought against wokeness in California, sued UC Berkeley over civil rights, and went after Governor Newsom many times,” legal consultant Helena Reyes Gordon told the Globe on Wednesday. “Also, Democrats had been wondering if he was punishing blue states with some of his picks. So he finally started picking people from blue states. His choice of Dhillon yesterday quieted those people real quick.”
Since the Obama administration, the Civil Rights Division has provided legal cover for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion requirements for both government agencies and the private sector. It has taken the side of race-hustling groups including Black Lives Matter, and attacked individuals, businesses and organizations for attempting to exercise religious believes which run counter to the woke/progressive agenda.
One measure of the importance of this appointment is the response to it by liberal democrats:
“It’s petrifying. She is about as extreme a choice as you could have for this role,” said Assemblyman Rick Zbur (D-Los Angeles) on Tuesday. “Having her in charge of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department is just astonishing, given her long history of opposition to everything that the division is charged with protecting.”
As President Obama reminded republicans shortly after taking office in 2009, “elections have consequences.”
