More than 200 attorneys who previously worked in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division signed an open letter to warn Americans “about the near destruction of DOJ’s once-revered crown jewel.” Since President Trump’s return to the White House, approximately 75 percent of the Civil Rights Division staff has left the DOJ.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon replied to the letter on social media: “Bless their hearts! This is like arsonists setting fire to their house and then claiming homelessness. When I told @civilrights lawyers their job was to protect ALL Americans, not just perpetual victims, they quit en masse. We’re crushing it in all categories, no apologies!”
Bless their hearts! This is like arsonists setting fire to their house and then claiming homelessness. When I told @civilrights lawyers their job was to protect ALL Americans, not just perpetual victims, they quit en masse. We’re crushing it in all categories, no apologies!… https://t.co/kVlg5EoEiu
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) December 9, 2025
Mike Young of Indiana, who describes himself as a Gen X advocate, replied to Dhillon: “When you boast that the lawyers who spent their careers enforcing civil rights have left in protest, that is not a flex; it is an indictment. The Civil Rights Division was created because the market and the majority would not, on their own, protect people who had less power, less money, and fewer votes. Its job has always been to protect all Americans by focusing on the ones the system is most willing to overlook. You do not put out a house fire by declaring that every room is equally important and then walking away from the one that is burning.”
He added: “So yes, the division should protect everyone, including the officer who objects to unlawful retaliation and the religious student turned away from campus. It should also investigate the jail where inmates are beaten, the town that keeps moving the polling place out of Black neighborhoods, and the employer that treats harassment as a cost of doing business. Calling that work arson does not change what the law requires. It only makes clear who you think is expendable when the flames start climbing the walls.”
Dhillon replied dismissively to Young: “Clutch your pearls harder.”
As seen below on The Charlie Kirk Show, Dhillon said of the former DOJ attorneys: “They quit, but like a bad ex, many of them keep talking about us, and saying they want us back, only on their same old toxic terms. No thanks!”
They quit, but like a bad ex, many of them keep talking about us, and saying they want us back, only on their same old toxic terms. No thanks! We’re going to keep working for ALL Americans! https://t.co/dSTpel7v3W
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) December 10, 2025