Harmeet Dhillon resigned as head of the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, Fox News reported Thursday citing sources, and no successor has been named. She informed White House chief of staff Susie Wiles three weeks before Election Day that she had finished her objectives and wished to resume private practice; Wiles asked her to stay through the midterms, and she submitted her resignation on November 5.

Nominated in December 2024 and sworn in as assistant attorney general in April 2025, she created the division’s first Second Amendment Rights Section, sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department over concealed-carry permit delays, reached a settlement in August 2026, argued against Illinois’ Protect Illinois Communities Act in the Seventh Circuit, and sued the District of Columbia over AR-15-style rifle and suppressor bans. She plans to return to Dhillon Law Group. The section’s future is unresolved.