Harmeet Dhillon resigned as Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Civil Rights effective November 2026 after 19 months. She told White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in early October she would resume private practice, and a White House official asked her to wait until after the midterms. The Senate confirmed her last April in a 52-45 party-line vote after the Trump administration nominated her in late 2025.

The Civil Rights Division Second Amendment section sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department over stalled concealed carry permits, the Virgin Islands Police Department for unconstitutionally denying gun permits, and the California DOJ over an arbitrary Glock ban, and sided with 26 states arguing California’s bullet control law violates the Second Amendment.

Robert Leider resigned as ATF chief counsel to return to his chair at George Mason University after more than 40 ATF reforms earlier this year, and it is unclear who will replace Dhillon or whether that section will continue.