By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday has named Republican Party activist Harmeet Dhillon to be the assistant attorney general for civil rights.
Trump said on Truth Social making the announcement on Monday that “In her new role at the DOJ (Department of Justice), Harmeet will be a tireless defender of our Constitutional Rights, and will enforce our Civil Rights and Election Laws FAIRLY and FIRMLY”.
“Throughout her career, Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our cherished Civil Liberties,” he said.
He added, “Harmeet is one of the top Election lawyers in the Country, fighting to ensure that all, and ONLY, legal votes are counted.”
Trump noted that Harmeet Dhillon “is a respected member of the Sikh religious community”.
She will become the second Indian-American to hold the top civil rights position after Vanita Gupta, who held that position in former President Barack Obama’s administration and was the associate attorney general for two years under President Joe Biden if her appointment is approved by the Senate.
Dhillon ran unsuccessfully for the chair of the Republican National Committee last year.
She has been a member of the Republican National Committee and said a Sikh prayer at the Republican National Conventions in 2016 and 2024.
In the 2020 election, she was a legal adviser to the Trump campaign.
She was the co-chair of the Women for Trump, a group mobilizing women’s support for his election.
Her career as a civil rights career has focused on the rights of Conservatives and their causes, which she is expected to bring to the DOJ.
Trump said that “she took 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”.
She sued California, New Jersey, and Virginia against their lockdown rules that prevented churches from holding worship services during the Covid pandemic.
Dhillon also sued the University of California, Berkeley, on behalf of a youth group for preventing a right-wing activist from speaking there.
She took up another case was that of a White man who alleged that he was fired by Google for writing a memo criticising the company’s diversity programmes.
Dhillion also sued the extreme leftist group, Antifa, for allegedly attacking a journalist.
She has filed is against a California hospital group on behalf of a woman who said that the doctors there gave her sex change treatment when she was a minor.
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