Wire reporting: (AP, via ClickOnDetroit)

Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday he accepted the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who had led the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division for about 18 months^1,2,4.

Blanche wrote on X that Dhillon led the division with conviction and that the department was grateful for her service^2,5. ABC News identified Dhillon as a longtime ally of President Donald Trump⁴.

Dhillon did not immediately respond to a request for comment, according to Associated Press copy carried by ClickOnDetroit⁵. Reuters earlier reported, citing sources, that she would resign; the full Reuters article was not readable for this filing⁶.

CBS News reported that more than 75 percent of the division's staff left after she took over, and that the office shifted work toward issues including gun-owner rights, university diversity policies, and legal positions opposing civil-rights protections for transgender people². AP copy said more than three-quarters of the workforce from the start of Trump's second term had left, a change Dhillon previously described as a large personnel departure⁵.

CBS said the division filed 31 lawsuits, mostly against Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia, seeking unredacted voter rolls, and had lost 27 of those cases². AP copy likewise said the department pressed states for detailed voter records despite repeated losses in court⁵.

CBS reported the division closed many discrimination cases involving Black Americans, dropped pending police consent decrees in Minneapolis and Louisville, and rescinded investigative findings involving six other police departments². AP copy said police-reform settlements and investigations were scrapped and that university probes produced settlements, including one that preceded the University of Virginia president's resignation⁵.

Stacey Young, a former Civil Rights Division lawyer who now leads a Justice Department alumni network, issued a statement Thursday criticizing Dhillon's tenure, according to AP copy carried by ClickOnDetroit⁵. CBS News also reported that Young criticized her record².

NPR and The Guardian described Dhillon as the first senior Justice Department official to leave after Democrats won control of Congress in this week's midterms; those accounts are cited for that timing claim only^1,3. What comes next for the division, and whether Blanche will name a successor immediately, was not announced in the reports reviewed^2,4.