GOP Confirms Anti-Voting Rights Extremist To Protect Americans' Voting Rights
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Harmeet Dhillon, an election denier and legal adviser to Trump, will now lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
WASHINGTON ― The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Harmeet Dhillon to run the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, putting one of President Donald Trump’s own legal advisers and someone with a long record of attacking voting rights in charge of protecting those rights for millions of Americans.
The Senate confirmed Dhillon by a vote of 52 to 45. Every Democrat voted no. Every Republican voted yes, except for one: Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment as to why.
Three senators missed the vote, though it wouldn’t have changed the outcome of Dhillon’s confirmation. They were Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
A former California Republican Party official, Dhillon has been Trump’s legal adviser for the last four years. During his 2020 campaign, she perpetuated his lie that the election was stolen from him and spread false claims about persistent voter fraud in Pennsylvania, a state that Trump legitimately lost to Joe Biden.
Her law firm, Dhillon Law Group, has filed more than a dozen lawsuits across eight states aimed at challenging voting rights, election processes or the ability of Trump to appear on 2024 ballots in states that disqualified him because of his role in inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
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