{"id":135409,"date":"2024-12-10T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T03:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135409"},"modified":"2024-12-10T10:33:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T03:33:50","slug":"trump-picks-strident-supporter-for-civil-rights-post-at-justice-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135409","title":{"rendered":"Trump Picks Strident Supporter for Civil Rights Post at Justice Dept."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Monday that he would nominate Harmeet K. Dhillon, a California lawyer who has long championed Mr. Trump in public, in court cases and on social media, to run the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In declaring his choice on social media, Mr. Trump said Ms. Dhillon \u201chas stood up consistently to protect our cherished civil liberties.\u201d He praised her legal work targeting social media companies, restrictions on religious gatherings during the pandemic and \u201ccorporations who use woke policies to discriminate against their workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Dhillon has been a conservative activist so devoted to Mr. Trump that she was willing to attack not only Democrats but also fellow Republicans, including her ultimately unsuccessful challenge last year to the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She was also the co-chairwoman in 2020 of a group, Lawyers for Trump, that challenged the results of that year\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is not unusual for Republican administrations to significantly scale back the work in the Civil Rights Division. In Ms. Dhillon, however, Mr. Trump has chosen a lawyer active in the culture wars whose firm specializes in championing the right\u2019s causes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m extremely honored by President Trump\u2019s nomination to assist with our nation\u2019s civil rights agenda,\u201d Ms. Dhillon posted on social media. \u201cIt has been my dream to be able to serve our great country, and I am so excited to be part of an incredible team of lawyers led by\u201d Pam Bondi, Mr. Trump\u2019s choice for attorney general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The division, which enforces voting rights laws, investigates police departments and brings charges for violations of people\u2019s civil rights, is spending the final days of the Biden administration finishing as much work as possible on cases involving patterns or practices of police misconduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Earlier on Monday, the division announced findings highly critical of the police department in Worcester, Mass. Such findings, however, may not amount to much, given that those investigations will soon be handed over to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the first Trump administration, the Justice Department walked away from several high-profile cases involving misconduct by major city police departments, and lawyers who specialize in such cases have said they expect the second Trump administration to do much the same.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/09\/us\/politics\/trump-civil-rights-harmeet-dhillon.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald J. 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