Harmeet Dhillon (Credit: public domain)
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon just confirmed what every honest observer already knew: the old Civil Rights Division was a woke fortress inside Main Justice.
When President Trump’s team told those lawyers the American people had voted to end illegal DEI discrimination and scrub dirty voter rolls, about 300 of the division’s 400 attorneys walked out.
Dhillon did not mourn them. She called it what it was.
In an interview this week with Col. Kurt Schlichter filling in on the Hugh Hewitt Show, Dhillon said the Civil Rights Division is one of the largest shops at Main Justice in Washington.
When she arrived, it had about 400 attorneys. After her office made clear it would implement the president’s executive orders, “prioritizing getting rid of DEI and cleaning up voter rolls,” “eventually about 300 of those attorneys quit, and so they self-deported.”
Then she rebuilt.
“We then had the task of, while we had DOJ restrictions and budgetary constraints, building back the Civil Rights Division,” Dhillon said. “And I’m really happy to say that I recruited over 100 great legal professionals here to the DOJ.”
Assistant Attorney General @HarmeetKDhillon says about 300 of the roughly 400 attorneys in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division quit after she told staff the Trump administration would implement the President’s executive orders, end DEI policies, and focus on cleaning…
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) September 25, 2026