I excerpted Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s interview with Matthew Mosk in the current issue of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in “Ms. Dhillon regrets not” (I was alluding to Cole Porter’s “Miss Otis Regrets”). In the posted excerpts I drew attention to her answer regarding the exodus of attorneys from the Civil Rights division that she now heads. “And that’s fine,” she says. I say it’s better than fine. However, the interview left me wanting more on that point.
Harmeet addressed the gala dinner at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, DC on September 2, 2025. I have posted the video below. I thought readers might find the remarks in their entirety of interest. She’s got the fighting spirit.
Beginning at about 6:00, she discusses the resignation of 200 civil rights division lawyers at about 6:00. She mentions a second wave of resignations prompted by her request for the submission of work product by division lawyers in the previous three months. At about 24:00 she returns to the resignations. She reports that “over 70 percent of my team has quit and over half of the rest aren’t really down with the program.” The program is enforcing civil rights law.
At about 20:00 she discusses the dismissal of the federal case against the Minneapolis Police Department that I covered on Power Line. “We’re not in that business anymore,” she says. “We’re going to stop harassing the cops and allow them to do their job.” At about 21:30 she takes up “equal opportunity in sports.” Equal justice under the law for all Americans is her object.
