President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division would bring an extensive anti-"woke” litigating record that signals a harder-charging agenda for an office that’s assumed a lower profile in past Republican administrations.
Harmeet Dhillon’s staked out clear positions advancing Trump-aligned court battles on election integrity, transgender healthcare, religious liberty, and corporate diversity policies. All are areas within a DOJ civil rights purview that under President Joe Biden has been busy supporting historically underserved populations, whether through multi-million dollar redlining settlements or deals with local governments to stop pollution in communities of color.
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