President-elect Donald Trump has been announcing picks for his administration at a fast and furious rate.
And there are some good signs so far for pro-life activists.
Because Donald Trump just tapped this leading pro-life attorney for a top spot at the Department of Justice.
President-elect Donald Trump just handed pro-lifers a huge victory with his pick of leading pro-life attorney Harmeet Dhillon to lead the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
Ending Joe Biden’s targeting of pro-life Americans
In a disgusting abuse of power, the Biden administration used that division, established originally to uphold civil rights, as a brutal hammer to silence Americans who protest the killing of unborn children.
The department also followed Biden’s lead in twisting federal law to push gender ideology.
But that could all be changing.
Dhillon’s record as a civil rights lawyer shows she’s exactly the right person to clean house at DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
The Department of Justice has multiple divisions, with assistant attorneys general heading up each one.
Under President Joe Biden, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke currently leads up the Civil Rights Division.
The radical left-wing Clarke has actively weaponized the division to target pro-life activists and groups.
In probably the most famous case, the Civil Rights Division sent a SWAT team to the home of a Catholic father with seven children at 7 a.m.
The man, Mark Houck, was accused, falsely, of assaulting an abortion mill worker.
In fact, local authorities had declined to charge Mark Houck for the brief altercation, caused by the abortion mill worker assaulting Houck’s son.
Misusing and abusing their authority to intimidate and target pro-life Americans
And despite the DOJ’s best efforts, Houck was ultimately acquitted by a federal jury and he’s now suing for malicious prosecution.
At issue was violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
On paper, FACE is supposed to protect access to both abortion mills and to pro-life pregnancy resource centers.
But under Joe Biden, the Civil Rights Division charged 26 pro-lifers with FACE Act violations in 2022.
The DOJ charged just four people with FACE Act violations in 2021 and even fewer in the years before that.
This despite the fact that after the leak of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, violent pro-abortion thugs have attacked at least 95 pro-life pregnancy centers and 303 Catholic churches.
And the DOJ made no secret of their bias.
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, who had Clarke’s job during the Obama administration, said in December 2022 that the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe increased “the urgency” of the DOJ’s work, including the “enforcement of the FACE Act, to ensure continued lawful access to reproductive services.”
And a former DOJ official told The Daily Signal that the department was “using the FACE Act to intimidate the pro-life population of the country.”
But Trump’s appointment to head the division, Harmeet Dhillon, by contrast, has been a fearless advocate for pro-lifers.
While the Civil Rights Division prosecuted pro-lifers, Dhillon represented pro-life journalist David Daleiden.
Daleiden famously exposed Planned Parenthood staff who sold aborted baby body parts.
Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris launched an investigation into Daleiden that later led to criminal charges from her successor, Xavier Becerra (who now serves as Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services).
Planned Parenthood also sued him, and Daleiden responded with lawsuits of his own.
Dhillon also represented former Google senior software engineer James Damore, who sued Google after it fired him after his exposure of the Big Tech company’s anti-conservative bias.
She also sued Rose City Antifa on behalf of journalist Andy Ngo, after Ngo suffered injuries in an assault in Portland, Oregon.
Dhillon also represented Americans who lost their freedoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dhillon has filed more than a dozen lawsuits against pandemic orders in California, representing pastors, businesses, and citizens.
She also testified before a House committee about the COVID-era abuses.
“At any given time today, a state or federal government could declare an emergency—or fabricate some other unfounded excuse—and suspend our fundamental rights once again,” she warned. “Most courts will not stop them, as we have unfortunately seen. It is imperative that Congress intervene so history cannot and will not repeat itself.”
“One of the most egregious violations of our First Amendment freedoms was the treatment of religious Americans as second-class citizens, as vectors of disease,” Dhillon warned. “From the very beginning of the pandemic, governors across the country discriminately labeled houses of worship, and by extension the First Amendment, as ‘non-essential,’ while at the same time leaving their secular counterparts open for business. In my state, California, marijuana, liquor, and big-box retailers were deemed essential, but God was banned.”
Dhillon has proven herself a warrior for free speech, religious freedom, the pro-life movement and sanity in the face of radical abortion and transgender movements.
President-elect Trump said it best:
“Throughout her career, Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our cherished Civil Liberties, including taking on Big Tech for censoring our Free Speech, representing Christians who were prevented from praying together during COVID, and suing corporations who use woke policies to discriminate against their workers.”
Stay tuned to Pro-Life Press for more on this developing story.
