Harmeet Dhillon resigns as head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division

Summary

Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, resigned on Thursday 5 November, CBS News reported, Bloomberg reporting that Dhillon was the first senior DOJ official to resign following Democrats' massive midterm wins and Forbes that Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the resignation in a post on X. The NY Times reported that the move came after conflicts with Justice Department leaders, including disagreements over legal strategy in the midterm elections, people familiar with the matter said. Dhillon, a conservative attorney, oversaw a radical reshaping of the division, celebrated the mass departures of career lawyers and spearheaded sweeping investigations into elite universities, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has drawn fierce criticism from former Justice Department attorneys, who have accused Dhillon of abandoning the division's traditional civil rights enforcement mission in favor of conservative causes.

Latest: PBS NewsHour reported the resignation of Harmeet Dhillon after a radical reshaping of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, a division created during the country's Civil Rights Movement to protect the rights of minorities.

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