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This Biden Appointee Drove DOJ ‘Weaponization’ Concerns. Here’s How Trump’s Replacement Could Turn It Around

Few presidential candidates have garnered as much enthusiastic support from their supporters as Harmeet Dhillon, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) civil rights division.

We have a track record of undertaking doctor A person who performed irreversible transgender surgery on a minor and filed a lawsuit over the discontinued COVID-19 policy. churchClients and allies alike believe Dillon is the best choice to clean up the Justice Department department they believe is behind some of the most brazen conservative targets.

Kurt Schlichter, a California lawyer and conservative commentator, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that there is “literally no one in the United States better suited for this job.” “She checks every box twice.”

founder The American Freedom Center’s notable clients include detransitioners like Chloe Cole, whom Dillon helped bring the action Kaiser Permanente allowed her to undergo surgery when she was a teenager. She also helped one mother secure $100,000. settlement After-school staff secretly encouraged her daughter to identify as transgender. During the 2024 election, she led the RNC’s election integrity initiative. team In Arizona. (Related: President Trump has the tools to wipe out DEI from all aspects of government – here’s how he’ll use them)

“Harmeet has taken on big tech companies that censor free speech, represented Christians prevented from praying together during COVID-19, and used woke policies to discriminate against workers.” “We have consistently stood up to protect our important civil liberties, including by suing companies that violate our laws,” President Trump said. I wrote When announcing her nomination, she told Truth Social: “Mr. Harmeet is one of the top election lawyers in the country and is working to ensure that every and only legal vote is counted.”

“Master Organizer”

Sarah Parshall Perry, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Law and Justice Research, told DCNF that Dillon is “an exceptionally talented lawyer and there is no one more qualified for this position.” ” he said.

Under current Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clark, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has used the Freedom of Access to Clinics Act (FACE) law to disproportionately target pro-life activists. Several pro-life activists are currently in prison.

Of the 55 defendants the Biden Justice Department has charged under the FACE Act, only five are abortion activists who attacked pro-life pregnancy centers. According to Go to Republican Texas Congressman Chip Roy’s August press release.

pro-life activist celebrated Mr. Dillon’s nominations include her. client David Daleiden was investigated by then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris and later indicted over an undercover video that revealed Planned Parenthood’s involvement in fetal tissue trafficking.

“Harmeet is amazing,” Daleiden told DCNF. “She is a master of efficient and effective organizers. She is a leader in President Trump’s mission to stop the weaponization of law enforcement against Americans’ free speech and protect the constitutional rights of all people.” He is an excellent choice to achieve this goal.”

Mr. Dillon should address the politicization of the FACE Act, along with the Voter Integrity Act and the Department of Homeland Security Obstacle. [DHS] “I opposed it because it would make it impossible for state election officials to access DHS databases that contain information about foreign nationals who are legally or illegally in this country,” Perry told DCNF. .

During the election period, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division filed the following complaint: lawsuit against several states that tried to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls as elections approached. The states argued that DHS was preventing them from accessing critical databases used to verify the citizenship of voters. (Related article: Red states outraged after Biden-Harris administration allegedly thwarted efforts to stop non-citizens from voting illegally)

“Mr. Dillon also directed the Department of Justice’s Education Division to strengthen and target universities that continue to racially discriminate in admissions procedures, in violation of the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University. “They should be told to do so,” Perry said. “The Education Department also prohibits all violations of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, including allowing men dressed as women to enter women’s sports facilities, restrooms, and lodging facilities, depriving them of privacy and equal opportunity in sports and academics. It should target schools, which is exactly what Title IX was passed on to provide.”

In early 2021, the Biden Justice Department dropped A lawsuit previously filed by the Trump administration challenging racial preferences in Yale University’s admissions process. Under the Clark administration, the Office of Civil Rights sued police and fire departments alleging discrimination when female applicants underperformed on physical exams and black applicants unfairly failed written exams. He has filed lawsuits with a variety of effects.

“Respectable lawyers like Dillon want to enforce civil rights laws in a race-neutral, apolitical, textualist way, which is exactly what the laws were intended to do,” Perry said. .

Amid the pro-Palestinian campus protests, Dillon also said: support In response to university crackdowns on anti-Semitism.

“Sue Yell” Dillon I wrote At X in April. “Sue every university that refuses to protect the safety of students based on religion. Make them regret their choices. Deplete their resources. Sue the organizers one by one. Drain their bank accounts. Sow salt in their career plans.”

“Important work”

Those who know Dillon say she has the leadership skills and qualities needed to take control of the department.

Schlichter told DCNF that Dillon can handle both high-level strategy and litigation expertise. “A lot of lawyers can’t do that,” he says.

Mark Trammell, executive director and general counsel of the American Freedom Center, wrote: statement Her “leadership and vision” has made the organization “the nation’s front line in defending First Amendment freedoms, parental rights, due process, and the rights of detransitioned people victimized by the gender-industrial complex.” ”, he said.

“Her unparalleled dedication to these causes not only shaped our mission, but earned her recognition at the highest levels of government,” Trammell wrote. “It’s no surprise that President Trump is entrusting her to continue this important work on a federal scale.”

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