President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that he will nominate a Bay Area lawyer to serve as assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.
“I am deeply honored by President Trump’s nomination to support our nation’s civil rights agenda. It has been a dream of mine to serve our great country. I am so excited to be a part of an amazing team of lawyers led by @attorney I’m excited. Pambondi, I can’t wait to go to work,” Harmeet Dhillon said in a post on X.
Dillon is based in San Francisco and practices commercial litigation, employment law, First Amendment rights, and election law, according to his biography.
She founded her own law group in 2006, is a member of the Republican National Committee, and previously held the position of vice chair of the California Republican Party.
In 2017, Dillon’s representative Berkeley College Republicans filed the lawsuit after the university initially canceled an event where Ann Coulter was scheduled to speak. she Also filed a federal lawsuit In 2019, he accused the state of California and the Department of Transportation of failing to verify citizenship to register to vote.
