Harmeet Dhillon

• Defended anti-abortion individuals, including David Daleiden, an anti-abortion activist who created a fake company in order to record meetings with National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood employees, then disseminated edited content in order to demonize abortion.
• Called herself a “lawyer for the pro-life movement” during the Capitol Weekly Podcast.
• Claims that shield laws–which protect abortion providers, helpers, and patient medical records from civil and criminal consequences stemming from abortion and reproductive health care provided to out-of-state residents –  violate the Constitution. 

• Harmeet Dhillon is the founder and managing partner of Dhillon Law Group Inc. She and her law firm have been involved in many anti-abortion, anti-transgender,  anti-immigration, and election lawsuits. 
• Dhillon represented David Daleiden and his nonprofit organization, the “Center for Medical Progress,” which were convicted in 2019 of fraud, breach of exhibitor agreements, trespassing and clandestine recording for their dishonest 2015 videos of Planned Parenthood employees that caused considerable backlash for the organization.

Consistently used false and inflammatory rhetoric on abortion, such as:

• During an interview on Fox News she stated “I can’t identify with a party and frankly most people of faith can’t where one of their religious tenets of their faith is killing children in the womb.”
• Claims that laws that allow states to refuse to extradite physicians to another state for prosecution “violates the Constitution.” 
• During an interview on Fox News about a Trump administration rule that gives health care professionals the right to opt out of abortion procedures based on religious or moral objections, Dhillon called abortion “very brutal.” 

On a podcast, she stated she rejects “abortion rights” and that she believes only in “traditional marriage.”

• Dhillon wrote an Op-Ed published by Fox News titled “The Plot to Destroy the Court” that discusses the leak of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
  • Dhillon called Roe v. Wade “a structurally infirm and morally illegitimate opinion that has led to the deaths of millions of pre-born American children throughout the nation.” Dhillon also agreed with Justice Alito that “the right to an abortion is nowhere to be found in the Constitution.” 

• Dhillon worked closely with anti-abortion activist, David Daleiden while he was a client of hers.  
• Her nomination was celebrated by anti-abortion media who see her as part of their movement
  • Life News called her nomination a “huge pro-life victory” and called her a “fearless advocate” for their movement (“Trump Appointment of Harmeet Dhillon to DOJ is a Huge Pro-Life Victory,” December 10, 2024). 
  • Live Action called her a “long-time defender of the pro-life movement” (“Trump nominates pro-life attorney Harmeet Dhillon as Assistant AG for Civil Rights” December 10, 2024).