United States President-elect Donald Trump nominated Indian American Sikh lawyer ‘Harmeet K. Dhillon’ as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice. “I am pleased to nominate Harmeet K. Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US Department of Justice,” Trump announced on Truth Social, a social media platform owned by him.
He said, “Throughout her career, Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our cherished civil liberties, including taking on big tech for censoring our free speech, representing Christians who were prevented from praying together during COVID, and suing corporations that use woke policies to discriminate against their workers”. Trump added, “Harmeet is one of the top election lawyers in the country, fighting to ensure that all, and ONLY, legal votes are counted. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Law School and clerked in the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals”.
“Harmeet is a respected member of the Sikh religious community. In her new role at the DOJ, Harmeet will be a tireless defender of our constitutional rights and will enforce our civil rights and election laws FAIRLY and FIRMLY,” said the President-elect. Dhillon faced backlash and was subjected to racial attacks following she recited Ardas at the Republican National Convention in July this year. Last year, she ran for the position of Republican National Committee chairmanship but lost.
Chandigarh-born Dhillon, 54, moved to the United States when she was a child along with her parents. In 2016, she was the first Indian American to appear on the stage of the GOP Convention in Cleveland. Dhillon grew up in Smithfield, a rural North Carolina town. She attended Dartmouth College and later pursued law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
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