Harmeet Dillon has spent decades defending American plaintiffs in their civil rights complaints.

Now she's serving as the Assistant Attorney General leading the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice following four intense years of the Biden administration.

In this episode, Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olaan sits down with Harmeet to discuss how she is using her role to defend the American public, the pushback she's received from both inside and outside the DOJ, and more.

I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Sunday, June 29th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

The following is an interview between Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret

O'Lahan and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon.

Well, Harmony, thank you so much for letting us join you here at the Department of Justice.

We'd love to hear a little bit about what your experience has been like coming into these well-known halls, this establishment that we've heard so much about,

especially during the last administration. How has your reception been?

I actually started here at the DOJ over 30 years ago as a summer intern defending the government

against accusations of violating civil rights

and federal cases. And so, you know, that was a very interesting experience. I think a lot of

lawyers go to law school thinking that they want to work on civil rights issues because it's

meaningful and it's helpful. And then I, you know, came to realize that that section of the DOJ

was actually on the opposite side of what I wanted to be,

which was enforcing people's civil rights. And so my career went in a different direction.

And then when President Trump asked me to do this job, I jumped at that opportunity because I am

passionate about civil rights. I've spent much of the last many years on civil rights issues on behalf of different American plaintiffs,

it's near and dear to my heart. So I've jumped in and it's been quite an experience and

quite a change from being in charge of your own law firm and nonprofit. You know, I left the Dillon

Law Group and Center for American Liberty where I basically had my run of cases that I could bring and people I could work with.

And then you come here to a DOJ and it's very different.

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