DOJ Leader Calls for Civil Rights ‘Paradigm Shift’ After Exodus

Harmeet Dhillon, the political appointee overseeing the transformation of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, recounted when division attorneys were asked earlier this year to join the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force, just three out of nearly 400 volunteered.

“That set the tone as to what I could expect,” Dhillon, who was sworn in last month, said Wednesday at a Federalist Society conference in Washington. “On what should clearly be a bipartisan non-controversial issue, hundreds of lawyers in the DOJ simply decided they weren’t going to raise their hands and help with that.”

Now a month into her tenure, more ...