Some 600 college leaders recently signed a letter opposing the Trump administration’s interference in higher education. The only Ivy League president who did not sign the letter was Sian Beilock, the president of Dartmouth College. Instead, she wrote her own letter to her campus, saying that higher education institutions should strive to do better, “to…
Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are leaving the Justice Department’s civil rights division, as veterans of the office say they have been driven out by Trump administration officials who want to drop its traditional work to aggressively pursue cases against the Ivy League, other schools and liberal cities. The wave of departures has…
US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday appointed Indian-American lawyer Harmeet K Dhillon as the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice. Dhillon is the fourth Indian-American nominated to the Trump 2.0 Cabinet, joining Dr Jay Bhattacharya (National Institutes of Health), Vivek Ramaswamy (Department of Government Efficiency), and Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel (Director…
US President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that he would nominate Harmeet K Dhillon, an Indian-origin attorney and longtime Trump ally, to head the Department of Justice’s civil rights division. “Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our cherished civil liberties,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform. He praised…
US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday named Indian American lawyer Harmeet K Dhillon as the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice. In a post on Truth Social, Trump praised Dhillon for taking on tech companies for censoring free speech, representing Christians who were prevented from praying together during the Covid-19…