司法部民权司司长 Harmeet Dhillon 辞职：部长 Todd Blanche 已接受辞呈
美国司法部长 Todd Blanche 11月5日在社交平台 X 发表声明，宣布已接受助理司法部长 Harmeet Dhillon 的辞呈。Dhillon 自 2025 年 4 月起执掌司法部民权司（Civil Rights Division），任职 18 个月，是 11 月 3 日中期选举之后首位离任的司法部高级官员。司法部总部位于华盛顿 950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW。
Blanche 在声明中写道：「今天，我接受了助理司法部长 Harmeet Dhillon 的辞呈。过去 18 个月，她坚定地领导民权司，捍卫了每一位美国人的公民自由，不偏不倚、不畏强权地执法。本部门感谢她尽心尽责的公共服务，祝愿她今后一切成功。」声明未提继任人选，Dhillon 本人未公开发表说明离职原因的声明。
Dhillon 2024 年 12 月获特朗普总统提名，2025 年 4 月 3 日经参议院确认，4 月 7 日由时任司法部长 Pam Bondi 主持宣誓就职。她此前在 San Francisco 创办 Dhillon Law Group 律师事务所，并创办非营利组织 Center for American Liberty，执业领域为第一修正案言论自由、民权与竞选选举法。民权司依 1957 年《民权法》设立，负责执行禁止基于种族、肤色、性别、残障、宗教、家庭状况、国籍与公民身份歧视的联邦法律。
任职期间，民权司在中期选举前起诉数十个州、要求其交出选民资料，相关诉讼被法院驳回；该司还调查多所大学在招生与就业中的种族考量问题，并以纵容校园反犹主义为由起诉加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）与 Harvard 大学。Dhillon 2025 年 8 月曾表示，该司约 400 名律师中约有 300 人在新政府上任头七个月内离开，约占 75%。
据彭博社此前报道，Dhillon 曾在 8 月告诉记者，她计划在司法部任职结束后回到自己在加州的 Dhillon Law Group 律师事务所。她也曾告诉同事，将在中期选举之后离开司法部。
DOJ Civil Rights Chief Harmeet Dhillon Resigns; Attorney General Todd Blanche Accepts Her Departure
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced in a statement on X on November 5 that he has accepted the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon. Dhillon had led the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since April 2025, a tenure of 18 months, and is the first senior Justice Department official to depart since the November 3 midterm elections. The Justice Department is headquartered at 950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.
"Today, I accepted the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Civil Rights Division with conviction the past 18 months. She has defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor. The Department is grateful for her dedicated public service, and we wish her every success in her future endeavors," Blanche wrote. The statement did not name a successor, and Dhillon has not publicly released a statement explaining her reasons for leaving.
Dhillon was nominated by President Donald Trump in December 2024, confirmed by the Senate on April 3, 2025, and sworn in by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 7, 2025. She previously founded the Dhillon Law Group law firm in San Francisco and the nonprofit Center for American Liberty, practicing in First Amendment free speech, civil rights, and campaign and election law. The Civil Rights Division, created under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, disability, religion, familial status, national origin, and citizenship status.
During her tenure, the division sued dozens of states ahead of the midterm elections demanding that they turn over voter information, lawsuits that courts tossed; it also investigated potential racial preferences in university admissions and employment, and sued UCLA and Harvard for allegedly allowing antisemitism to flourish on campus. Dhillon said in August 2025 that about 300 of the division's roughly 400 lawyers had left in the first seven months of the new administration, about 75 percent.
According to Bloomberg's earlier reporting, Dhillon told reporters in August that she planned to return to her California law firm, the Dhillon Law Group, after her time at the department. She had also told colleagues she would leave the department after the midterms.
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图片来源：图：美国司法部民权司助理司法部长 Harmeet K. Dhillon 官方肖像（2025年）。照片：美国司法部，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Official portrait of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet K. Dhillon (2025). Photo by the U.S. Department of Justice, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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