Harmeet Dhillon

• 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. 
• Represented an anti-abortion activist in an unsuccessful petition to the Supreme Court and a failed defamation suit against Planned Parenthood dismissed by a federal judge who called their arguments “in a word, ridiculous.”

• 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, the “Center for Medical Progress,” an anti-abortion organization whose actions incited violence and harassment of abortion providers and advocacy organizations.
  • In 2021, a federal judge dismissed a defamation suit filed by Dhillon on behalf of Daleiden, calling their arguments “ridiculous” and Planned Parenthood’s assertion that Daleiden manufactured a false smear campaign against the organization “as ‘fair and true’ as it gets.”
  • In 2023, the Supreme Court denied Daleiden’s petition for writ of certiorari, where Dhillon was named as his attorney, refusing to hear his appeal.

• Since taking office in April, Dhillon has reiterated her commitment to using the “Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act” (FACE) to protect fake clinics, otherwise known as “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs), while refusing to do the same for clinics that provide abortion care.
  •  During her confirmation hearing, Dhillon said she would prosecute “attacks” on CPCs, much like Attorney General Pam Bondi, failing to mention protections for reproductive health clinics that have been the target of extremist violence for decades. These statements were made after DOJ’s announcement ceasing enforcement of the FACE Act in abortion-related cases barring “extraordinary circumstances… such as death.”
  • Later, in an interview with Glenn Beck, Dhillon doubled down on her plans, affirming that the Civil Rights Division will use the FACE Act to start “aggressively going after” cases involving anti-abortion pregnancy centers. Dhillon also claimed that the “only violence” being done was to the “rights of speech and prayer” of protesters outside of clinics, despite the fact that, in his first days in office, President Trump pardoned 23 people who had been convicted under the FACE Act for harassing and attacking abortion patients and clinics.  

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).