Harmeet Dhillon: Inside Trump Admin’s Shake-Up of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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How is the Trump administration transforming the Department of Justice’s civil rights priorities?
Joining us today for a deep dive is DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the civil rights division.
Their jurisdiction includes a wide range of constitutional issues, from religious freedom to Title IX protections, race-based discrimination, and enforcing voting rights laws.
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| 0:00.0 | People have been arrested, prosecuted, and sent to jail for years for praying outside abortion clinics. |
| 0:06.0 | There were very few prosecutions of actual violence against pregnancy crisis centers. |
| 0:12.0 | How is the Trump administration transforming the DOJ's civil rights priorities? |
| 0:17.0 | Joining us today for a deep dive is Assistant Attorney General Harmy Dillon, head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. |
| 0:23.6 | Their jurisdiction includes a wide range of constitutional issues, from religious freedom, to Title IX protections for women's sports, to race-based discrimination. |
| 0:32.6 | I have asked every member of Congress who asked me my opinion, Harmeet, what can we do to remedy the laws? I said, get rid of Jacobson versus Massachusetts. |
| 0:41.3 | Do not allow states to do whatever they want to their citizens in the name of public health. |
| 0:46.3 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick. |
| 0:49.3 | Harmeet Dillon, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders. |
| 0:55.0 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:56.0 | There's been apparently a lot of people leaving your division, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. |
| 1:03.0 | What is the current status of that? And why do you think that's happening? |
| 1:08.0 | Well, when we came in with the new government, of course, their new |
| 1:11.2 | priorities and the president has been very prolific in announcing executive orders that |
| 1:17.3 | really touch on a lot of the campaign promises that he made, but also touch on some of the reasons |
| 1:22.7 | why the American people voted in a new government. There was a, I think, need for some changes of policy |
| 1:29.5 | and a number of issues, and a lot of those happen to fall into my lap as the Assistant Attorney |
| 1:33.6 | General for Civil Rights, because a lot of these issues are fundamental constitutional issues |
| 1:37.9 | that affect the American people. And so what I did when I came in after being confirmed about |
| 1:43.5 | just about a month ago, a little over a month ago, is as I came in after being confirmed about just about a month ago, a little over |
| 1:46.0 | a month ago is as I came in my first week, my second week, and getting organized, I decided |
| 1:51.4 | it would be a good opportunity to reset the expectations of all the people in the Civil |
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