Meet Harmeet Dhillon, Trump's civil rights warrior who once shut up Piers Morgan
India TodayUS President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that he would nominate Harmeet K Dhillon, an Indian-origin attorney and longtime Trump ally, to head the Department of Justice’s civil rights division. "Harmeet will be a tireless defender of our constitutional rights, and will enforce our civil rights and election laws fairly and firmly," he added/ Dhillon’s nomination as the assistant attorney general for civil rights marks a shift in Republican administrations’ traditional approach of scaling back work on civil rights, signalling a more combative stance on the culture wars that have come to define present-day America. During an appearance on British TV personality Piers Morgan’s show in 2020, after the host described Trump as "an ostrich with his head buried in the sand" over his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dhillon’s relentless defence of the president left Morgan visibly frustrated and struggling to get a word in edgewise. Dhillon’s early career included a clerkship with Judge Paul V Niemeyer of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a role in the Constitutional Torts Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Division.
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