Harmeet Dhillon

Rule Changes

Oversaw the Nov. 3 deployment of about 1,000 monitors in all 50 states.

The Justice Department deployed about 1,000 election monitors to more than 120 jurisdictions in all 50 states on Nov. 3, the largest monitoring effort in its history. The list included New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and several New Jersey counties, and it was the first time the department sent observers to every state. A Washington Post analysis found nearly two-thirds of the selected jurisdictions have consistently voted Democratic.

Updated 2 days ago

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Oversaw the voter data litigation; the policy was vacated nationwide, and DOJ is appealing to the D.C. Circuit

The Justice Department wants unredacted voter files from every state that keeps registration records, including names, birth dates, driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers, for roughly 160 million registered voters. It sued 31 jurisdictions that refused. Courts have dismissed 27 of those suits, Oklahoma settled, and three remain pending.

Updated 3 days ago

Rule Changes

Resigned as chief of the Civil Rights Division on November 5, 2026

Harmeet Dhillon, who took over the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in April 2025, resigned as its chief on November 5, 2026, Al Jazeera reported. She left an office focused on election-fraud claims, campus discrimination cases and suits against universities.

Updated 4 days ago

Rule Changes

As of May 2026: Leading DOJ voter data collection effort

On January 28, 2026, FBI agents seized 700 boxes of 2020 election ballots from a Fulton County warehouse. Four days later, on February 1, the Georgia Senate passed a resolution urging Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to hand over unredacted voter data to the DOJ — he refused, citing state privacy laws.

Updated May 23

Force in Play

As of May 2026: Leading DOJ civil rights investigation into church protest

The Department of Homeland Security deployed 3,000 federal agents to Minneapolis in what it calls the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history. Two months in, two U.S. citizens are dead: Renee Good, 37, shot January 7, and Alexander Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse, shot January 24; DHS claims self-defense in both cases, but witness videos contradict that.

Updated May 23

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As of May 2026: Declined to investigate Good shooting, triggered mass resignations

ICE agent Jonathan Ross fired three shots in 700 milliseconds, killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in her car on a Minneapolis street. Good was a U.S. citizen, a mother of three, standing with her wife to support neighbors during Trump's self-proclaimed "largest immigration operation ever"—2,000 federal agents deployed to Minnesota.

Updated May 20

Force in Play

As of May 2026: Facing mass resignations after refusing to investigate ICE shooting

Three Minnesota congresswomen entered a Minneapolis ICE detention center on January 10 but were ordered out minutes later. They'd come three days after an ICE agent shot 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Good in the head during what the Trump administration called the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem secretly signed a seven-day notice rule the day after Good's killing—a rule a federal judge had already blocked—and Judge Jia Cobb refused to block it on January 20.

Updated May 20