Lawfare Daily: DOJ’s Very Online Civil Rights Head, with Quinta Jurecic and Anna Bower

About this episode

The episode discusses Harmeet Dhillon's role as the head of the civil rights division at the DOJ and her social media presence.

In  her recent profile of Harmeet Dhillon , the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice, The Atlantic’s Quinta Jurecic writes, “Dhillon’s leadership of the division is both the next step in the natural progression of a career spent needling liberals and a preview of what is to come if she continues to rise within the Justice Department.” But, Jurecic notes, Dhillon may be “at the top of her game, yet her position has never appeared more precarious.” For today’s episode,  Lawfare  Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Jurecic and Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower to talk through the life and times of the Justice Department’s current head of the civil rights division. They discuss Dhillon's extensive social media presence, the hallmarks of her tenure at the Justice Department thus far, and why there may be limits to how high she can climb in the MAGA movement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Tyler McBrien

Guests: Quinta Jurecic, Anna Bower

Topics covered

• civil rights
• Department of Justice
• social media
• politics
• leadership
• law

Keywords

• Harmeet Dhillon
• civil rights
• Department of Justice
• Quinta Jurecic
• Anna Bower
• social media
• MAGA movement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Department of Justice, The Atlantic, Lawfare Institute, MAGA movement

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