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Harmeet Dhillon steps down as Justice Department civil rights chief

Dhillon is most known for her college admissions probes, which totaled more than 100 by her count.

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Nov 09, 2026
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The Indian American lawyer who remade the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division formally resigned on Thursday.

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Harmeet Dhillon, a longtime Trump ally, said she decided to leave her post as the division’s assistant attorney general in October but held off at the request of then-White House C…

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