The Republican Party confirms that extremist anti -anti -ribs rights to protect Americans
Washington – The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Harmet Dhillon to direct the civil rights division in the Department of Justice, placing one of President Donald Trump’s own legal advisors and someone with a long history of attacking voting rights in charge of protecting those rights for millions of Americans.
The Senate confirmed to Dhillon by a vote of 52 to 45. Each Democrat voted no. All Republicans voted yes, except one: Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comments on why.
Three senators lost the vote, although the result of Dhillon’s confirmation would not have changed. They were sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Bill.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) And Bernie Sanders (I-VT.).
A former official of the California Republican Party, Dhillon has been Trump’s legal advisor during the last four years. During her 2020 campaign, she Perpetuated his lie that the election was stolen from him and spread false statements about Persistent voter fraud In Pennsylvania, a state that Trump legitimately lost To Joe Biden.
His law firm, Dhillon Law Group, has presented More than a dozen demands In eight states aimed at challenging voting rights, electoral processes or Trump’s capacity to appear in 2024 in the states that disqualified it due to their role in Prompt on January 6, 2021, Insurrection.
In addition to its assault on voting rights, Dhillon has assaulted LGBTQ+ rights and women’s reproductive rights, referring to doctors who do care that the genre as “butchers” affirms and refers to abortions as abortions such as “Kill children in the uterus.”
Just before Dhillon’s vote, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Bill.), Who is the main Democrat of the Senate Judicial Committee, said that the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ “is often called the” crown jewel “of the department, since it enforces the historical laws that prohibit discrimination.
“It is the duty of the head of this division to protect the civil rights of each American,” Durbin said on the Senate’s floor. “I can’t and I will not support a nominated whose registration suggests that the civil rights to defend them are more likely to attack.”
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Dhillon touched questions about how he would decide when to demand state laws that discriminate against voters during his Senate confirmation hearing in February. This is a central responsibility for your new work.
When Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) said that 13 states immediately approved laws that made it difficult to vote after the Supreme Court annulled part of the Voting Rights Law in 2013, specifically, states such as Texas, Georgia and Arizona Closed 1,688 voting stations Within the six years after the judicial decision, Dhillon said there was no evidence that discriminated actions against people.
“I do not agree with the premise of his question that all these measures that Georgia and other states took to improve the confidence of all citizens in the vote, in fact, had a discriminatory impact form,” Dhillon told Hirono.
“That is the Quid, isn’t it, as far as these laws have an anti -discriminatory effect?” Hawaii senator intervened. “And you obviously don’t believe it.”
The civil rights groups condemned Dhillon’s confirmation after the vote.
“Harmet Dhillon is not a civil rights lawyer and does not have to lead the civil rights division of the Department of Justice,” said Lena Zwarensteyn of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 240 national civil and human rights groups.
“The senators who voted to confirm Mrs. Dhillon have failed in their voters and our country,” Zwarensteyn said in a statement. “This confirmation is insulting, and it must be alarmed to all that an electoral denial is now in charge of enforcing the Voting Rights Law, which an anti-LGBTQ+ activist now has the task of protecting the civil rights of LGBTQ+ people in America, and that another of Trump’s personal lawyers is now on leadership role in the nation’s signature agency for the law of our federal laws.”
The leadership conference helped approve the Civil Rights Law of 1957, which created the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice and authorized the position that Dhillon will now occupy.
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“We are determined to fight, every day, for the fundamental rights and for the future of our multi -regular democracy at a time when the Department of Justice is ruling them blatantly and shamefully,” said Zwarensteyn. “The civil rights community will be observing.”