‘Little fiefdom’: Harmeet Dhillon tells Tucker Carlson that DOJ lawyers had ‘crying sessions’ after Trump’s 2024 win
May 22, 2025 | Hailey Gomez
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Wednesday during a podcast that Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers held “crying sessions” after President Donald Trump won the election in 2024.
Following Trump’s November win, Democrats and media pundits quickly melted down over the president securing a second term. Appearing on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Dhillon told Carlson how Trump’s anti-discrimination and anti-DEI agenda “catalyzed hundreds of lawyers to quit the civil rights division.”
“Wait, they quit because you informed them of the law?” Carlson asked.
“Yes, and the law and the priorities. Their pet projects had changed. They weren’t going to be able to do those the way that they wanted,” Dhillon said.
Between Trump’s inauguration in January and May, an estimated 250 attorneys in the DOJ’s civil rights division, which is roughly 70%, resigned, according to NPR.
Carlson asked Dhillon if the lawyers who were upset about Trump’s victory believed that the DOJ “was just immune to democracy” and if elections “just had no bearing” on the department.
“There were career lawyers there who were doing the same thing, no matter who is the president. Suddenly, their little fiefdom that had remained untouched, like Shangri-La, was suddenly having to be responsive to elections.”
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