A rare voice for conservative policies in deep blue California has been invited to join the new Trump administration.
President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he will nominate Harmeet K. Dhillon, the former vice chair of the California GOP, to be the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice.
Dhillon, who represented California on the Republican National Committee, would have a prominent role in enforcing voting rights if her nomination is confirmed by the Senate.
“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 said in a statement.
Dhillon, a practicing Sikh who was born in India, delivered a Sikh prayer onstage in the 2016 and 2024 Republican National Conventions.
Dhillon founded a law practice, Dillon Law Group Inc., and a nonprofit firm called the Center for American Liberty. She gained notoriety filing free speech-suits on behalf of conservative clients, including the Berkeley College Republicans and a Google engineer who was fired for his memo blasting the company’s diversity policies. She led multiple lawsuits against the state of California in 2020, challenging Covid-19 policies like stay at home orders and mail-in ballots.
