Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump's nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, prepares for her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 26, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Then-President-elect Donald Trump announced in December that Dhillon was his choice to serve as assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department.
"I am pleased to nominate Harmeet K. Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. 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 who use woke policies to discriminate against their workers," Trump declared in his Truth Social post at the time.
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Harmeet Dhillon, a candidate for the Republican Party chair speaks to the media after GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel was re-elected during the 2023 Republican National Committee Winter Meeting in Dana Point, Calif., on Jan. 27, 2023 (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
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The president called out the four GOP senators ahead of a vote on a measure to scuttle his tariff policy on Canadian products.
All four Republican senators voted for the joint resolution anyway, and it cleared the Senate with all Democrats voting in favor.
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