{"id":490,"date":"2026-11-05T17:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2026-11-05T17:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:49:18","slug":"harmeet-dhillon-leader-of-justice-departments-civil-rights-unit-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Harmeet Dhillon, Leader of Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Unit, Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Justice Department&#x27;s Civil Rights Unit, has stepped down. Her departure followed internal conflicts with Justice Department leaders, including disagreements over legal strategy during the midterm elections, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/05\/us\/politics\/harmeet-dhillon-resigns-doj-civil-rights-unit.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times \u2014 Harmeet Dhillon, Leader of Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Unit, Resigns<\/a>. Also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/harmeet-dhillon-resigns-doj-civil-rights-division\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/head-doj-civil-rights-division-resigns-gop-midterms-loss-rcna607697\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Justice Department&#x27;s Civil Rights Unit, has stepped down. Her departure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[400,401,71,59,402],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","tag-civil-rights","tag-harmeet-dhillon","tag-justice-department","tag-midterm-elections","tag-resignation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}