Former senior counsel Jonathan Gross blasts Dhillon for blocking help for January 6 defendants and putting the DOJ ahead of its victims.
Harmeet Dhillon resigned Thursday as the Justice Department’s civil rights chief, two days after Republicans lost control of Congress.
Jonathan Gross, who said he served as her senior counsel for nearly a year, accused her of protecting the department instead of Americans who suffered under it.
“I tried to help people, and she blocked me,” Gross said. He alleged that Dhillon told him their job was to “protect the DOJ” and failed to meet with January 6 defendants or victims of government weaponization.
“Today, I accepted the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said. He praised her 18 months leading the Civil Rights Division.
Gross delivered a different verdict. “She is a fraud. She is a failure. She is a disgrace,” he said. He accused Dhillon of leaving career attorneys in control while selling tough talk through media appearances.
Reuters reported that Dhillon had notified the White House in October of her plan to leave after the election. Her spokesperson said she would return to the Dhillon Law Group.
Gross urged Trump to replace the department’s leadership with people committed to freeing victims of DOJ and FBI weaponization—and dismantling the machinery behind it.