作者：汉娜·拉比诺维茨、埃文·佩雷兹
发布时间：美国东部时间2026年11月5日下午12:46
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2025年9月29日，民权助理总检察长哈尔米特·迪隆在华盛顿特区司法部出席新闻发布会。
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哈尔米特·迪隆已辞去司法部民权司司长一职，成为中期选举后首位离职的高级官员。
司法部长托德·布兰奇在社交媒体帖文中宣布了她的辞职，称她“以坚定的信念领导着民权司”。
她在X平台上发文称：“她捍卫了每一位美国公民的公民自由，执法时无所畏惧、不偏不倚。司法部对她的敬业公职表示感谢，并祝愿她未来一切顺利。”
在担任助理总检察长的一年半时间里，迪隆对该司进行了全面调整，试图重塑其工作方向以贴合特朗普政府的执政思路——从传统上执行促进选举投票权和警务改革的工作，转向打击她所谓的“觉醒意识形态”。
近几周来，作为前总统唐纳德·特朗普竞选团队法律顾问的迪隆，在司法部处理一系列总统高度关注的选举相关法律案件时，愈发被边缘化。
一位参与司法部多项法律案件的共和党官员表示：“哈尔米特去哪了？”这些案件是为了配合特朗普关于民主党试图窃取选举的指控而提起的。
迪隆在社交媒体上的存在高调却不符合传统，她一边宣布各项举措，一边分享自己对手工编织的热爱，同时投身右翼事业，包括开设专门支持《第二修正案》的板块并倡导拥枪。
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她离职时留下的民权司因人员短缺而陷入困境——在她任期内，该司超过75%的员工要么被解雇，要么辞职。她招募了几名保守派律师加入该司，但这些新员工根本无法弥补流失的数十年民权法律专业知识。
事实上，民权司的缩水反倒成了迪隆的问题，因为一些保守派人士抱怨她手下的不资深律师无法处理移交到该司的案件。
迪隆并未立即回应置评请求。
消息人士称，随着选举日临近、民主党掌控参众两院，迪隆几乎肯定会在选举后几天内离职。熟悉情况的官员表示，数月来她对民权司的掌控力一直在下降，部分原因是她在法庭上接连败诉，同事们还认为她擅长宣布举措，却难以有效落地执行。
迪隆在法庭上遭遇的最大失败，是她试图获取选民登记册的行动。全国多地的法官都驳回了她声称将帮助各州“清理”非公民选民的诉讼，尖锐批评她此举是在利用法律剥夺选民投票权或获取他人个人信息。
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消息人士告诉CNN，随着中期选举临近，迪隆在司法部选举相关工作中愈发被边缘化。选举期间，签署最高调诉讼文件的是代理副司法部长特伦特·麦科特，而非迪隆。
与迪隆关系紧张的副司法部长斯坦利·伍德沃德主导了出庭辩护政府法律举措的工作。
不过，她牵头的其他努力结果喜忧参半。例如，她向各大高校发出信函并提起诉讼，指控这些院校存在反犹太主义和歧视白人学生的行为，但这些举措极少能在法庭上胜诉，甚至大多没有实际提起诉讼。
一些高校承诺将致力于清除反犹太主义，但消息人士告诉CNN，司法部几乎没有提供任何框架或后续跟进措施。
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Harmeet Dhillon, who ran the Justice Department’s Civil Rights division, resigns
By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez
PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2026, 12:46 PM ET
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Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon arrives for a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, DC, on September 29, 2025.
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Harmeet Dhillon has resigned from her post as the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, making her the first senior official to leave the administration since the midterms.
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced her resignation in a social media post, saying that she has “led the Civil Rights Division with conviction.”
“She has defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor,” Blanche wrote on X. “The Department is grateful for her dedicated public service, and we wish her every success in her future endeavors.”
In her year and a half as Assistant Attorney General, Dhillon upended the division in an attempt to reshape its work to fit into the Trump era — shifting from its traditional work enforcing laws encouraging elections access and police reform to fighting what she has called “woke ideology.”
In recent weeks, Dhillon, a former legal adviser to President Donald Trump’s campaign, appeared increasingly sidelined as the department pursued a series of high-profile election-related legal cases of high interest to the president.
“Where’s Harmeet?” asked one GOP official working on some of the legal cases the department pursued to try to support Trump’s claims of Democrats trying to steal the election.
Dhillon took on a high profile albeit non-traditional presence on social media, announcing initiatives alongside her love of knitting, while embracing right-wing causes, including opening a section dedicated to the Second Amendment and promoting gun ownership.
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She leaves behind a division faltering due to a lack of staffing — more than 75% of the Civil Rights Division was fired or quit during her term. She recruited several conservative lawyers to join the division in their place, but those hires have far from made up for the ouster of decades of knowledge on civil rights laws.
In fact, the gutting of the Civil Rights Division was part of the problem for Dhillon because some conservatives complained that inexperienced lawyers in her section weren’t able to handle cases referred to her division.
Dhillon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Dhillon’s departure was all but guaranteed to come in the days following the election, when Democrats took control of the House and Senate. Her control over the Civil Rights Division had been declining for months, officials familiar with the matter said, in part because of her repeated losses in court and the perception among colleagues that she was good at announcing initiatives and less effective at accomplishing them.
The largest losses Dhillon suffered in court were over her attempts to gain access to voter rolls. Judges across the country tossed lawsuits that Dhillon claimed would help states “clean” their rolls of non-citizens, sharply criticizing what they saw as an effort to use the law to disenfranchise voters or access their personal data.
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Dhillon was increasingly sidelined from the department’s voting efforts as the midterms approached, sources told CNN. As the election approached, it was Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter who signed on to the highest profile lawsuits, not Dhillon.
Stanley Woodward, Associate Attorney General, with whom Dhillon had a strained relationship, took the lead appearing in court defending the administration’s legal moves.
Still, other efforts she spearheaded came with mixed success. She sent letters to and filed lawsuits against universities she accused of antisemitism and discrimination largely against white students, for example, but those efforts rarely resulted in a court win — or even in a lawsuit at all.
Some of the universities committed to help root out antisemitism, but sources have told CNN there was little framework or follow up from the department at all.
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