Harmonet Dhillon, who was confirmed on April 3, 2025 as a candidate of President Donald Trump for the deputy general prosecutor for civil rights, is preparing for her confirmation hearing before the Senate of the Senate office of the Senate on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC (photo of chip somodevilla/getty images) Chip Somodevilla/Getty/Getty))
Washington – On Thursday, the Senate wiped out two other candidates of the Ministry of Justice of President Donald Trump and deployed another lawyer who defended Trump in the past year, and a up-to-date leadership on civil rights, which took intensive criticism from interest groups.
The Senate confirmed the California lawyer mother Dhillon in and 52-45 voice The role of the deputy general prosecutor, who leads the agency’s civil rights department, one of the largest in the judiciary. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski was the only Republican who opposed the nomination.
Dhillon, a Trump right advisor and managing director of the Dhillon Law Group in San Francisco, specializes in the biography of her law firm on the biography of her law firm on her law firm’s website.
Dhillon is also a CEO and founder of the Center for American Liberty, which gives his mission as “defense of the bourgeois freedoms of the Americans who are left behind by the legacy organizations of civil rights”.
Dhillon previously sat in the Aclu Northern California Board and defended members of the Sikh community, to which their family belongs, of attacks after September 11th, as clamorous reporting From the KQED-FM based in San Francisco.
Dhillon also has a trace of controversy, also repeated deny The results of the 2020 presidential election and fuel Conspiracy After the attack from 2022 on Paul Pelosi, husband of the then spokesman Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.
Civil rights representatives also refer to their recent legal work, which questions the voting and transgender rights.
“She is not out there to protect the rights of all of us, and that is exactly what showed her records,” said Lena Spentryn from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said States newsroom on Thursday.
In an eight -sided letter to the senators under the direction of the Leadership Conference and signed the coalition by dozens of interest groups wrote Dhillon has “tried tirelessly to limit access to the ballot box” and “refused, reduced and tried to extinguish the existence of transgender youth.
The state of newsroom has contacted the White House to get a comment.
Former Missouri AG increases
The Senate also confirmed coordinated in a party line, 52-45, Dean Sauer, former Attorney General of Missouri and Trump’s defense lawyer to lead state legal disputes.
After Sauer represented the President’s immunity in front of the Supreme Court of the United States in front of the Supreme Court of the United States, he will now argue in front of the Hohen Bank on behalf of the Doj.
Sauer made headlines in January 2024 when he recommended To a three-judge committee for the DC Circuit Court of Appeal that a President could be shielded Due to the president’s immunity to order Seal Team Six to murder a rival.
