Two California senators joined Democratic colleagues to demand Trump loyalists and Californians now lead the answers to the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and reported that she and other officials have delayed senior leaders and imposed strict policies with the department’s mission.
In a letter to assistant Atty on Friday. General Harmeet Dhillon, who is seven senators (including Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff of California), quoted reports that Dhillon emailed the directive to convert long-standing law enforcement goals into employees, including “a section designed to protect the right to vote and prevent discrimination from federal funding recipients, investigate illegal discrimination in housing and defend the illegal discrimination in education and defend these rights.
The directives were "probably inconsistent" with the intentions of Congress when it passed legislation.
The senator also mentioned the report that several professional lawyers and supervisors of the unit have left or reassigned, and political appointees without any work experience are now fully responsible. The senator wrote that Dalilong and other sector leaders are further reducing the experienced workforce of the sector through acquisitions and other measures.
"These measures appear to be an attempt to coax the department's professional officials to leave voluntarily to fundamentally change their jobs," the senators wrote. They also requested disclosure of "all personnel-related changes" in the department since Trump's inauguration before Thursday.
San Francisco lawyer, Republican insider and conservative expert Dhillon declined to comment when asked by the Times about the senator's letter.
However, in an interview with conservative podcast host Glenn Beck, Darron admitted that he and his lawyer frankly said they expect them to be committed to implementing Trump’s political agenda regardless of their own personal politics – something she said some don’t like.
"We told them that these are the president's priorities, and that's what we're going to focus on - you know, dominate yourself accordingly," she said. "There are a lot of people, dozens, and now there are over 100 lawyers who decide they don't want to do what their job requires them to do."
Dhillon said she was working to find alternative lawyers interested in enforcing the law, “not awakening ideology.”
Baker calls Dhillon the perfect person for the job, calling her a "machine" and "tough as nails." Civil rights groups this month criticized President Trump and the Senate confirmed appointments to lead the department.
In addition to the letter to Denilon, the Senators wrote to their colleague Senator Eric Schimitt, Republican chairman of Missouri, who is the Republican chairman of the Constitutional Judicial Committee, asked him to hold a monitoring hearing to "update the public about these developments about these developments to the Senate and the U.S. public."
Schmitt said in a statement to the Times that the American people "strongly rejected the left's awakening ideology" by electing Trump, and he was "happy to see that Deron "dron "did not hesitate to waste time implementing President Trump's agenda instead of forcing the law, not forcing Arad politics to lower the American thth foot."
Democratic senators quoted reports from The New York Times, The Guardian and Bloomberg Law in their letter to Dillon. In an article, The New York Times reported that Dillon directed staff in the department to “focus on enforcing orders against trans women on sports and other issues” was important to the president, “the creation purpose of fighting racially-based discrimination has shifted.”
A new directive from Dhillon reportedly requires the department’s voting rights to prioritize investigations on election fraud, although “though there is a lot of evidence” that it is a “rare event.”
The senators wrote that the second directive “allegedly” requires staff to investigate recipients of federal funds “discriminate against the president’s agenda, which could lead to attempts to punish national, local and private institutions that disagree with the government’s cultural war agenda.” They added that the third “apparently guides the investigation of educational institutions to focus on racial discrimination against white applicants.”
Legislators’ focus on this change has exacerbated a wider alert among Democrats, civil rights groups and legal experts that Trump turns the Justice Department into a law enforcement unit of its conservative political and executive policy rather than being loyal to him, rather than the rule of law or congressional legislative directives.
Democrats, including Schiff and Padilla, have attracted serious attention for Atty's appointment. General Pam Bondi and General Dhillon have represented Trump in the past. Senators question women's independence and willingness to break up with Trump.
Like Bundy, Dhillon pushed Trump's lie that the 2020 election was stolen. She has been a prominent member of the California Republican Party for many years and has been a cultural crusader who “awakens” politics.
Prior to her Justice Department appointment, Delon named herself in California by challenging Covid-19 restrictions and voting rights programs and attacking California laws designed to protect trans-young people. In addition to Trump, she also represents California teenager Chloe Cole, a key voice in the “damage” movement, while failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has appointed Trump as a special counsel to the US global media.
Dhillon established the Conservative Legal Organization Center for the American Liberal Law in 2018, which “has coordinated attacks on our civil liberties, politicians, socialist revolutionaries, powerless or biased government officials” and saw her star quickly rise in the Republican circle in 2018, so because of the rare title she won because of the fans.
The center’s CEO Mark Trammell praised Trump for his selection for the Civil Rights Post, confirming that “she is an excellent lawyer, a fierce advocate of civil liberties and is in principle the core.”
After the Justice Department swore, Daliwan said "will bring experience and perspective to the Justice Department, unlike anyone before her."
Others warned that Daliron would ignore the department’s long-term principles by focusing on limiting rights rather than protecting their rights and reshaping it in his own image, especially for vulnerable groups such as transgender people.
A coalition of hundreds of civil rights organizations across the country condemned her confirmation, saying she was “not a civil rights lawyer” and “without any business” to lead federal divisions.
"This confirmation is insulting and it should warn everyone's election rejectors now are responsible for enforcing the Voting Rights Act, an anti-LGBTQ+ activist is now responsible for protecting the civil rights of the LGBTQ+ people in the United States, and another Trump's personal lawyer now declares leadership for our leadership in the leadership of the national propaganda agency, our federal law is our federal law, our federal scope is our federal scope, and our federal scope is our federal scope.
Vanita Gupta, who served as a director of the civil rights department during the Obama administration, said in a statement to the Times that Daleon's move so far has served as head of the department - the resignation they had sent in professional lawyers - caused alarm.
“It is not only a change in the execution priorities that accompany the administrative changes, but the department has been turned away and is now used as a weapon to protect the communities it protects,” Gupta said. “The mass exodus triggered is unprecedented and understandable.”
Seema Mehta, an employee of the era, contributed to the report.