DOJ eyes civil rights action against feds, state officials who pursued Trump and MAGA, official says
Dhillon made the remarks in the wake of recent revelations that the FBI admitted it likely lacked probable cause to raid President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach in 2022.
By Ben Whedon
Published: December 17, 2025 10:57pm
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told Just the News on Wednesday that federal and local officials involved in the prosecutions of President Donald Trump may face legal action if the Department of Justice identifies a conspiracy to deprive him or his followers of his civil rights.
"The Department of Justice is at the heart of considering these issues right now, so I can't really talk about the specifics, but in general terms, yes," she said on the Just the News, No Noise television show.
DOJ's jurisdiction over conspiracy to violate civil rights dates back decades"The Civil Rights Division and the DOJ generally do have the tool of a criminal conspiracy statute for conspiracy against rights, and this dates back to the start of the Ku Klux Klan, and when the Klan and its predecessors used to go after people, and they could involve, sometimes local law enforcement to do that," she said. "And so we have the ability, if we can prove a conspiracy to violate someone's civil rights, that that could be a criminal matter."
Dhillon made the remarks in the wake of revelations that the FBI likely lacked probable cause to raid President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022. The revelations came in the form of declassified emails showing that the bureau repeatedly raised concerns about lack of probable cause to the Biden Department of Justice.
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