Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, resigned Thursday, Attorney General Todd Blanche said^1,2.

Blanche wrote that he accepted the resignation of an official who had led the division for about 18 months and praised her service^1,2. The department pointed reporters to that statement rather than a separate explanation of timing².

CBS News reported that more than 75 percent of the division's staff departed last year and that Dhillon shifted work toward gun-rights cases, university DEI policies and positions opposing civil-rights protections for transgender people¹. The same account said the division filed 31 lawsuits seeking unredacted voter rolls and had lost 27 of those cases¹.

Al Jazeera said Dhillon was the first senior Trump administration official to resign after Democrats won control of Congress in this week's midterms². Critics including former division lawyer Stacey Young condemned her tenure; Blanche's statement described her as enforcing the law without fear or favor^1,2.

Neither outlet published a letter from Dhillon stating her own reasons^1,2.