{"id":1144,"date":"2026-07-15T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:41:32","slug":"how-trump-transformed-the-dojs-civil-rights-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"How Trump Transformed the DOJ\u2019s Civil Rights Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Julia Haller worked with the since-indicted Sidney Powell to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election in what a federal judge called a \u201chistoric and profound abuse of the judicial process.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1134\">Man Killed by Truck While Running From ICE in Florida<\/a><\/p><p>Now, she\u2019s a staff attorney at the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>Haller works in the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division, an office currently threatening top election officials with criminal prosecution if noncitizens vote this November.<\/p><p>She\u2019s part of a divisional transformation that current and former staff tell NOTUS is causing deep tension within the office, which was established via the 1957 Civil Rights Act and traditionally tasked with enforcing a wide swath of laws that prohibit various forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>Trending<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Members of Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on.\" class=\"wp-image-1140\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a83d84194055dedfdd98b2e70239cb6c-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a83d84194055dedfdd98b2e70239cb6c-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a83d84194055dedfdd98b2e70239cb6c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a83d84194055dedfdd98b2e70239cb6c.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. 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She has vastly reshaped the types of cases the office pursues to include constraining voting access, reducing punishments for allegedly abusive police officers and expanding Second Amendment rights.<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a radical shift,\u201d said one civil rights attorney who just recently left the department.<\/p><p>Haller\u2019s hiring earlier this year came after a federal judge in Michigan sanctioned her and her colleagues, including Powell, for one of their lawsuits, requiring them to pay attorney fees incurred by the state and the city of Detroit and sending them to 12 hours of continuing legal education courses. An appeals court largely held up the ruling and the Supreme Court subsequently declined to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Michigan, Haller and her co-counsels had brought lawsuits in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin challenging Joe Biden\u2019s victories there. All of those efforts were unsuccessful, with judges finding the suits were rooted in baseless theories and conjecture, \u201cgossip and innuendo\u201d and even invented quotes.<\/p><p>The District of Columbia Bar brought charges against Haller in 2024. That case is still pending, though Haller has expressed remorse. Haller is currently representing the government in federal court in a case challenging Alabama\u2019s treatment of prisoners, though she risks having her law license suspended if the bar association rules against her.<\/p><p>The current and former workers said Dhillon is recruiting attorneys, like Haller, who support her effort to reshape the work of the office. Last week, Dhillon announced the onboarding of more than 100 new attorneys and staff in the civil rights office, which followed significant hiring and has continued with ongoing job posts.<\/p><p>\u201cWe have new hires that have no idea what they\u2019re doing or anything about the substantive law,\u201d said one attorney currently in the civil rights office. They added that the new employees have a \u201csense of superiority\u201d and have told existing staff they \u201chave no idea what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cNow it just seems like you need to not be a Democrat to get hired and you can fall into the job and fumble around,\u201d the current attorney said. \u201cThey got rid of everyone they wanted to get rid of and now filling with sycophants.\u201d<\/p><p>In a statement to NOTUS, Dhillon said she looks forward to hiring another 100 new personnel in addition to those already announced, and blamed previous staff, many of whom accepted separation incentives under threat of layoffs, for the high turnover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, many career employees abandoned their posts for a six-figure payout,\u201d Dhillon said, adding that since then, the office \u201chas grown steadily, with only a few departures due to retirements or typical circumstances for a department of our size. Any claim to the contrary regarding turnovers is misleading and dishonest.\u201d<\/p><p>Ejaz Baluch joined the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division as career attorney in Trump\u2019s first term, but left last year after being reassigned from the employment law section to an office responsible for processing internal human resources complaints. His former colleagues are now clashing with recent hires.<\/p><p>\u201cThey\u2019re not familiar with these laws, with the statutes, with civil rights enforcement,\u201d Baluch said. \u201cThey\u2019re being hired because they have a certain political ideology and a worldview.\u201d<\/p><p>Baluch noted there are conflicts between new and old staff over which cases to pursue. The recent hires bristle at their more tenured coworkers when they say there is no legal or investigatory basis to pursue certain cases.<\/p><p>Regan Rush, who led the office\u2019s special litigation section when she left in May of last year, said new hires will also lack institutional knowledge and experience.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1132\">ICE Car Stop Pause Is \u2018Temporary,\u2019 Homan Says<\/a><\/p><p>\u201cThat\u2019s simply irreplaceable,\u201d Rush said.<\/p>\n<p>The office has dropped several cases against police departments it was investigating or had already sued over alleged discriminatory hiring practices toward Black candidates. Part of the stated reason for those decisions, Baluch said, was that the cases improperly relied on demographic statistics. The civil rights office subsequently brought cases against Harvard University and the University of California, Davis, over admissions practices, however, which also depended on demographic statistics.<\/p><p>\u201cThis shows that it\u2019s less about actual evidence and more about who these cases are about,\u201d Baluch said. \u201cThey are alleging it\u2019s discrimination against white applicants. All the cases we had before were discrimination against Black applicants.\u201d<\/p><p>The Civil Rights Division has similarly shut down or withdrawn its support for cases involving alleged police misconduct and requested lowering sentences for convicted officers, lending discrimination, unlawfully drawn congressional districts and individuals restricting access to abortion clinics, among many others.<\/p><p>New priorities have included cracking down on alleged antisemitism on college campuses and restricting opportunities for transgender individuals. It has used laws passed in the wake of Rodney King\u2019s violent beating seeking to address jurisdictions with a \u201cpattern or practice\u201d of law enforcement misconduct to instead challenge cities restricting gun rights. It has leveraged the 1960 Civil Rights Act and subsequent laws aimed at expanding voting rights to attempt, unsuccessfully, to gain access to several states\u2019 lists of eligible voters.<\/p><p>Rush said her former office is engaging in \u201can unprecedented perversion of those statutes\u201d by using the laws in ways Congress had never intended. Through that approach, the civil rights office\u2019s leadership has made clear to new hires that they will be asked to take the division in a new direction.<\/p><p>\u201cWhen that is the environment, where the expectation is set along those lines and reinforced from leadership every day, that is an obvious expectation of anyone who is hired into the organization,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Dhillon denied that new hires face any political screening.<\/p><p>\u201cCareer attorneys conduct ranking, interviews, and hiring recommendations for new career attorneys, utilizing background checks, qualification criteria, and suitability screenings to ensure the selection of the most qualified candidates,\u201d she said.<\/p><p>The DOJ is continuing to exert control by reassigning staff and firing career workers hired under the previous administration before their full civil service protections take effect, according to a current and several former employees familiar with ongoing practices.<\/p><p>\u201cThey\u2019re moving folks from one section to another in the hopes that they won\u2019t want to stay once they\u2019ve been moved,\u201d said the attorney who recently left the division.<\/p><p>The approach has left employees afraid to speak out or push back despite ethical concerns.<\/p><p>\u201cThat\u2019s a power they continue to have,\u201d Baluch said. \u201cIf someone is being too much of a squeaky wheel, they\u2019re at risk of being reassigned or terminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The current attorney noted that government-wide changes the Trump administration has implemented, including a condensed disciplinary schedule that makes it easier to fire career staff, have also had a chilling effect on the workforce.<\/p><p>In a social media <span><u>post<\/u><\/span> announcing the 100-plus recent hires, Dhillon called the new staff \u201ccivil rights warriors\u201d who will enforce laws to benefit all Americans and \u201cnot just a select few.\u201d In practice, Rush said, Dhillon has made clear since her first day in office that DOJ lawyers were meant to tackle Trump\u2019s personal grievances.<\/p><p>\u201cThat is a profound shift of how this department operated post-Watergate,\u201d she said.<\/p><p>Baluch suggested the turnover will have long-lasting effects on the judicial system.<\/p><p>\u201cThat will mean there are less and less people in the division standing up for the rule of law,\u201d he said. \u201cAs a country, we all lose as a result.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1130\">Recon Retcon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New, permanent hires include an attorney sanctioned for attempting to overturn Trump\u2019s 2020 election loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agencies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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