Attorney General Accepts Resignation of Justice Department Civil Rights Chief Harmeet Dhillon

Attorney General Todd Blanche has accepted the resignation of Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General who led the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, according to The Guardian. The Civil Rights Division is the part of the department responsible for enforcing federal civil rights laws. Dhillon had led it for the past 18 months.

Her departure was first reported by Bloomberg Law.

Under her leadership, the division dropped many cases alleging discrimination against racial minorities in voting, housing, employment and education. It also sued more than two dozen states for voter roll information, meaning the lists of registered voters kept by each state, and lost every one of those cases.

The division oversaw federal investigations into the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good by federal agents in Minnesota. Neither investigation led to criminal charges.

NPR reported in October that Dhillon had pushed out hundreds of longtime attorneys from the division. Earlier, in April 2025, the department reassigned about a dozen civil rights attorneys during a shakeup under her leadership, according to Reuters.