WashingtonOver three quarters of Civil Rights Division staff have left.
Harmeet Dhillon resigned Thursday, after Democrats swept Congress, saying she decided weeks earlier.
Under her, the division scrapped police reform settlements and pressed universities into settlements over diversity programs and campus antisemitism.
“Dhillon decimated it,” said Stacey Young, a former division attorney.
Representative Robert Garcia, likely the next Oversight chair, has pledged inquiries into shootings by immigration agents and the Epstein files.
How each outlet framed it
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- Aol
- NDTV
- centers Dhillon's Sikh Punjabi origins and social-media-driven style, framing her as the first senior exit after the midterms
- Al Jazeera Online
- frames the resignation as a pre-emptive exit ahead of Democratic congressional probes into Epstein files and ICE shootings
Sources: Aol, NDTV, Al Jazeera Online