New, permanent hires include an attorney sanctioned for attempting to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss.
President Donald Trump installed Harmeet Dhillon, a former Republican Party operative in California, to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Tom Williams/AP
Julia Haller worked with the since-indicted Sidney Powell to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election in what a federal judge called a “historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”
Now, she’s a staff attorney at the Justice Department.
Haller works in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, an office currently threatening top election officials with criminal prosecution if noncitizens vote this November.
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