Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon just confirmed what every honest observer already knew: the old Civil Rights Division was a woke fortress inside Main Justice.
When President Trump’s team told those lawyers the American people had voted to end illegal DEI discrimination and scrub dirty voter rolls, about 300 of the division’s 400 attorneys walked out.
Dhillon did not mourn them. She called it what it was.
In an interview this week with Col. Kurt Schlichter filling in on the Hugh Hewitt Show, Dhillon said the Civil Rights Division is one of the largest shops at Main Justice in Washington.
When she arrived, it had about 400 attorneys. After her office made clear it would implement the president’s executive orders, “prioritizing getting rid of DEI and cleaning up voter rolls,” “eventually about 300 of those attorneys quit, and so they self-deported.”
Then she rebuilt.
“We then had the task of, while we had DOJ restrictions and budgetary constraints, building back the Civil Rights Division,” Dhillon said. “And I’m really happy to say that I recruited over 100 great legal professionals here to the DOJ.”
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As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Dhillon told Tucker Carlson last year that holdouts inside the division held “crying sessions” and “unhappy hours” after she made it clear the era of weaponized civil-rights law was over. According to the New York Post, she later said those lawyers “self-deported with a nice golden parachute from the government.” She didn’t fire them. She told them the job had changed. They left.
The numbers line up with other reporting. Bloomberg Law reported this month that more than 300 of the division’s 400-plus lawyers departed over the past 19 months as Dhillon redirected the office toward voter-roll enforcement, campus discrimination, and religious-liberty cases.
What did those lawyers refuse to do?
They refused to treat race discrimination as race discrimination when the victims were Asian students, white applicants, or anyone else locked out by DEI. They refused to help states stop illegal voting. They refused to treat dirty rolls — dead registrants, movers, duplicates, and noncitizens — as a civil-rights problem for actual American citizens.
The Gateway Pundit has documented that fight for months. TGP reported last December that a limited review of 47.5 million records turned up more than 260,000 dead people still on the rolls and thousands of noncitizens registered for federal elections.
In March, Dhillon said a review of 50 to 60 million records had found hundreds of thousands of ineligible registrations, including more than 300,000 dead voters still listed. The division has sued states that stonewalled the data and put election officials on notice that knowingly leaving noncitizens on the rolls can be a federal crime.
That is the work the old guard would not touch.
Dhillon told Schlichter the rebuilt division is now operating as one unit. The priorities, she said, are the ones voters chose: stopping race discrimination in hiring, helping states stop illegal voting, cleaning voter rolls, going after universities that take federal money and still discriminate, targeting antisemitism on campus, and prosecuting church blockades, including the so-called protesters in Minnesota who obstructed churchgoers.
“We’re just really proud of the work that we’ve done here in the Civil Rights Division,” she said, pointing to findings letters against universities for ongoing discrimination after the Supreme Court’s fair-admissions ruling and to new categories of cases the old division would never have opened.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/good-riddance-300-400-doj-civil-rights-attorneys/
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