Washington:
US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday nominated Indian-American Harmeet Okay Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights on the Department of Justice.
“I’m happy to appoint Harmeet Okay. Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights on the US Department of Justice,” Trump introduced on Truth Social, a social media platform owned by him.
“Throughout her profession, Harmeet has stood up persistently to guard our cherished civil liberties, together with taking over huge tech for censoring our free speech, representing Christians who have been prevented from praying collectively throughout COVID, and suing companies who use woke insurance policies to discriminate in opposition to their employees,” he stated.
“Harmeet is among the high election legal professionals within the nation, preventing to make sure that all, and ONLY, authorized votes are counted. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Law School, and clerked within the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals,” Trump stated.
“Harmeet is a revered member of the Sikh non secular group. In her new position on the DOJ, Harmeet shall be a tireless defender of our constitutional rights, and can implement our civil rights and election legal guidelines FAIRLY and FIRMLY,” stated the President-elect.
Dhillon was topic to racial assault after she recited Ardas on the Republican National Convention in July this yr. Last yr she unsuccessfully ran for the place of Republican National Committee chairmanship.
Chandigarh-born Dhillon, 54, moved to the United States when she was a toddler alongside together with her mother and father. In 2016, she was the primary Indian-American to seem on the stage of the GOP Convention in Cleveland.
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