One of the many incredibly talented people among the stable of superstars that President Trump has seen fit to ask to join his administration, whom I admire so much, is Harmeet Dhillon, now the Assistant Attorney General leading the Civil Rights Division. She has always been a fearless proponent of the right thing.
Having her as your attorney when she was in civilian life meant you had one of the most brilliant, dedicated legal brains in the country believing in and working for you.
...She loved the city, but soon grew frustrated with the unwillingness of so-called “big law” to take on the types of pro-bono causes she wanted to pursue: civil liberties, anti-abortion and religious freedom cases that appealed to her as a longtime conservative — a worldview that she said was formed by around age 14.
...After a decade with major firms, Dhillon opened her own boutique practice, the Dhillon Law Group, in 2006, which emphasized its conservative bent and eagerness to take on cases that challenge liberal policies.
...After the 2016 election, Dhillon was a contender to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, interviewing with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. She didn’t get the appointment but still represented Trump’s interests in court. In 2019, his campaign became her client, as she challenged a Newsom-signed state law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns before appearing on California’s primary ballot. It was a direct swing at Trump, who prevailed on constitutional grounds.
It was one of many headline-grabbing cases Dhillon took on in that period. She defended the free-speech rights of Berkeley college Republicans who invited conservative firebrands like Ann Coulter to speak and represented a Google engineer who was fired for writing a controversial memorandum on diversity.
During the pandemic, her firm and its sister organization, the Center for American Liberty, also gained notoriety for fighting California’s pandemic policies, winning a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against a Newsom lockdown order that closed churches.
Dhillon has been relentless in pursuing civil rights infractions. I can't imagine anything that has to be more chilling than being, say, a big city mayor like Brandon 'Bear of Little Brains' Johnson, firing off one of your braggadocio Xweets...
Mayor Brandon Johnson: "The reason I hire so many blacks to run Chicago is because we're planet earth's most generous race" pic.twitter.com/b2qEzWOR5x
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 18, 2025
...and then seeing it either being rexweeted with one of Harmeet's patented 'How interesting. We're tracking' comments or a flat-out 'We're coming' release from the Justice Department.
Sometimes, if you're a Brandon Johnson-grade racist moo-ron, you'll get both.
The Mayor’s troubling statements have led the @TheJusticeDept @CivilRights and our colleagues at the EEOC to open an investigation …. Stay tuned. https://t.co/6UUzQklHwC
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) May 19, 2025
Oh, we all just love it when that happens.
Troubling. ✍🏽 Our @CivilRights team is on it. https://t.co/L78fWxCPam
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) July 10, 2026
More often than not, whatever policy they were touting or thuggish behavior they've been used to exhibiting winds up swiftly sleeping with the fishes.
One of Harmeet Dhillon's most unrelenting campaigns has been against election fraud, and the biggest target of that has been cleaning up state voter rolls.
It has not been easy. As you might imagine, blue states have been fighting turning over the information she and the Civil Rights Division have requested - months ago, mind you - on the flimsiest excuses from busted databases, to dog-ate-my-rollbooks, to accusing the DoJ of wanting to bounce the voter registration information against immigration data - everything imaginable in order to keep their voting rolls chock full of dead people and duplicates.
This past April, Dhillon signaled her patience had just about run out after a federal judge in Rhode Island blocked the government from that state's data in order to keep Homeland Security away from it.
29 states accused of withholding voter roll data from the Trump DOJ as audits uncover major issues.
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) April 20, 2026
Officials say 350,000 deceased individuals were found on rolls and 25,000 people with no citizenship records have been referred to DHS for review. pic.twitter.com/2erogFqhSG
Common Cause joined the widespread defensive effort and also filed a lawsuit on behalf of states seeking to block Dhillon's team from access to the information they need to clean up the voter rolls in time for the midterms.
💯 % Every registered voter receiving universal mail in ballots combined with no verification of who is filling out the ballots is the holy grail of election fraud.
— Obi (@ObiWanKEKobi) April 21, 2026
...But there are now no fewer than 7 lawsuits seeking to stop the rule-making process of PROPOSING regulations before it can even get started.
The Administration is over the target.
On the eighth of this month, she announced that her division would be sending election monitors to 15 jurisdictions for upcoming midterm primaries. Some of these are instantly recognizable as trouble-central locations. Practically legendary for mischief.
WE'LL BE WATCHING YOU
IT'S OFFICIAL: Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon is dispatching election monitors to 15 jurisdictions across SIX STATES for the coming 2026 primaries to prevent fraud, cheating and fair access to voting under federal law
— Donald Martinez (@DonaldMart65135) July 9, 2026
"Those states are Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota,… pic.twitter.com/9AhRN63StC
"Those states are Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Virginia. And we're sending the monitors into cities and counties where there may have been some problems in the recent elections."
The very next day, she swore in 100 new DoJ lawyers for the Civil Rights Division. As she said, they'd 'lost quite a few' at the beginning, and, no doubt, good riddance. Getting staff who believe in the work on hand before the main battle is key.
Yesterday, we swore in more than 100 dedicated patriots who left their jobs across America to join the @CivilRights Division and serve their country. We are proud to welcome them to @theJusticeDept. We’re still hiring! Apply today at https://t.co/FryVJD8PKx and join this awesome… pic.twitter.com/fTv9VAI5iU
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) July 9, 2026
As all the new staff were coming on board, more and more documented cases of 'that thing that never happens' happening were coming in as actual arrests were made thanks to the accelerated crackdowns.
Evidence mounts of noncitizens reaching voter rolls, casting ballots as DOJ speeds crackdown
Asmall town Kansas mayor born in Mexico. A Filipino senior citizen living in Hawaii. Two Pakistani men residing in New Jersey. An Aussie in Louisiana. And a Chinese student studying at the University of Michigan. They all have one thing in common.
Each has been charged in the last year with illegally voting in U.S. federal elections as foreigners, part of a sudden wave of prosecutions led by the Trump Justice Department for a crime that used to be among the rarest in the federal court system.
The Trump Justice Department has secured about two dozen non-citizens voting arrests, prosecutions or convictions in the last few months alone, with about another 90 more cases under investigation, officials told Just the News. And all 50 states were sent notices this month that election officials can and will be prosecuted too if they allow non-citizens to vote.
“It isn't just bad policy to let non-citizens vote in federal elections, it's a crime. And this Department of Justice will intend to prosecute that crime if these election officials, having been informed that they are non-citizens on the voter rolls, knowingly allow those people to vote, enable their enrollment on the voter rolls, are passive in the face of this knowledge, etc. This is not some idle threat,” Assistant Attorney General for Ciril Rights Harmeet Dhillon told the Just the News, No Noise television show.
Even here in my redneck of the Florida Panhandle, the DoJ has been busy and finding - guess what?
16 found guilty in Florida on immigration charges
More than a dozen people have been convicted of illegal immigration offenses in Northwest Florida, according to United States Attorney John P. Heekin.
According to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Florida, 16 previously indicted individuals were convicted of federal offenses during May, one of whom, Jacqueline Wallace, 54, of Jamaica, was convicted of voting by an alien.
AAG Dhillon is backing up her tough talk about prosecuting election officials knowingly enabling illegal aliens by passively allowing corrupt voter rolls to remain uncorrected in letters she sent to all 50 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia. And she doesn't mean by 2028 - she means NOW.
States have been given FIVE DAYS to explain how they intend to square their leaky ships away, or prepare to pay the piper.
The Justice Department has sent letters to election officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, warning them that they could face criminal prosecution if they knowingly allow noncitizens to vote in federal elections or fail to comply with federal voter registration laws.
The letters, signed by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the department's Civil Rights Division, give states five days to explain how they will comply with federal voter eligibility requirements and maintain what the department called "clean voter lists," NBC News reported Wednesday.
"The Department sent these letters to all 50 states and the District of Columbia, asking for voluntary compliance in a timely manner with their obligations under federal law to ensure only citizens vote in federal elections," a Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement.
According to the letters, election officials "could be criminally prosecuted for aiding and abetting" noncitizen voting. The department said officials who knowingly keep noncitizens on statewide voter registration lists or facilitate noncitizens receiving or casting ballots could face criminal liability.
"An intentional act that is aimed at diluting the votes of citizens could also constitute a violation" of federal law, the letters state.
Reaction from some blue-state recipients has amounted to 'Whatevs...'
...'Got another love letter this morning from the DOJ sprinkled throughout with threats of criminal prosecution'...
...but I wouldn't be too sure that Dhillon doesn't already have a follow-through planned. And woe unto the fool who underestimates her (although it will make for some great entertainment).
As focused as she is on specific problems within the states...
...DOJ officials have found three major problems in policing states’ voter rolls ahead of the 2026 election: hundreds of thousands of dead people still eligible to vote, tens of thousands of illegal aliens on the rolls and scores of foreigners having gone beyond registering to, in fact, vote in a federal election, which is illegal.
...those alone will keep her division hustling, especially as you know the countersuits are going to be flying like mosquitoes to prevent any voter roll clean-up.
Democrats have too much to lose, and they are already looking like a shambles just as a party.
If they lose their dead people, illegal aliens, and mail-in hanky panky advantage, it's really curtains.
Oh, you know that panic button is being mashed to within an inch of its life right now.
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