| Submit your comments on this article |
| Government Corruption |
| Top DOJ lawyer warns feds could face criminal civil rights charges for weaponization |
| 2025-08-12 |
| [JustTheNews] A top Justice Department lawyer is warning that federal agents and intelligence officers who weaponized their government powers for political purposes could face criminal charges under civil rights laws created to fight injustices during the Jim Crow era more than a half-century ago. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon cautioned in an interview with Just the News that she could not discuss any specific investigations or potential suspect. But she said recent reports that one or more grand juries were probing the weaponization of government powers against President Trump and his associates or followers might have given good reason for current and former FBI and CIA officials to hire lawyers. "This, again, goes back to those Reconstruction Era statutes that sought to remedy the vestiges of racism, and we had some terrible incidents in our country's history of law enforcement officials conspiring to deprive African Americans of their civil rights," she said in a wide-ranging interview with the "Just the News, No Noise" television show. "And that is where some of these laws stem from." Dhillon: Government officials wrongly think they are immune from civil rights laws "But they're broader than that, and so it can be a crime for government officials, either together or in conspiring with non-government officials, to violate people's civil rights," she explained. "That's also a civil violation. I've actually sued over that in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, for pro-life activists. And you know, we have long-standing cases involving these issues, and so I think, you know, government officials may think, because nobody ever bothers to enforce these statutes, that they're immune, and they can do whatever they want." "Not so, and I think that's why you're seeing some people tongue-in-cheek saying that in DC, every lawyer is being retained.... as these investigations have begun to hit the newswires," she added. Dhillon's comments come as FBI Director Kash Patel has opened at least one criminal conspiracy case looking at whether DOJ, FBI, and intelligence community officers were engaged in a long-running conspiracy to violate the rights of Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... and his followers from the Russiagate scandal to the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Related: Harmeet Dhillon 07/16/2025 How the Epstein Debacle Has Overshadowed Historic Success at the DOJ Harmeet Dhillon 05/23/2025 The DOJ's Assault on White Christians Is Worse Than You Think - Harmeet Dhillon Is Exposing the Rot. Harmeet Dhillon 05/15/2025 Whiny DOJ Lifers Start Support Group Related: Kash Patel 08/10/2025 Anatomy of a Soft Coup: McCabe's Unprecedented Criminal Investigation of a Sitting President Kash Patel 08/08/2025 FBI ousts former acting director, agent involved in J6 prosecutions, with more expected Kash Patel 08/06/2025 Vance, Bondi, Patel to huddle at VP residence for Epstein strategy meeting |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 Don't think the choice of Rona - Mitt Romney's niece BTW - was stupidity Supe. I default to grift...follow the money might be the right path if one chooses to investigate. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2025-08-12 08:42 |
| #1 Can you imagine the stupidity of choosing Rona to chair the RNC over Harmeet? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-08-12 06:34 |