总统唐纳德·特朗普将选举否认者哈米特·迪隆任命为司法部民权司负责人，这显然意味着该部门所谓的“皇冠上的明珠”将在本届政府期间黯然失色。据报道，迪隆无法招募法律人才，这进一步凸显了该部门的急剧衰落。在中期选举前夕，民权司的削弱尤为令人担忧，因为该司长期以来在防止选举日舞弊方面发挥着举足轻重的作用。
President Donald Trump putting election denier Harmeet Dhillon in charge of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division clearly meant that what’s been called the “crown jewel” of the department would be tarnished during this administration. Dhillon’s reported inability to recruit legal talent has only underscored the division’s sharp decline. The division’s weakening is particularly troubling ahead of the midterm elections, given the outsize role the Civil Rights Division has long played in preventing Election Day shenanigans.
在共和党人加班加点地寻找各种压制选票的方法之际，我们本应指望司法部民权司的负责人能成为抵御此类企图的中坚力量。然而，这位前特朗普竞选律师非但没有让美国人安心，让他们相信民权司在确保选举顺利进行，反而利用其职位散布关于美国选举的不确定性。今年夏天，她致函各州选举官员，要求他们证明如何遵守联邦法律中关于选民资格的规定，并威胁那些“未能履行职责”防止非公民投票的人将面临“潜在的刑事处罚”。与特朗普政府声称的非公民投票猖獗的说法相反，仅出现了微不足道的少数案例。
As Republicans work overtime on different ways to suppress the vote, we ought to be able to count on the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to be a bulwark against such attempts. However, rather than give Americans comfort that the Civil Rights Division is there to make sure things run smoothly, the former Trump campaign lawyer has used her perch to spread uncertainty about U.S. elections This summer, she sent letters to state election officials demanding they show how they’re complying with federal law on voter eligibility and threatening “potential criminal penalties” for those who “fail to carry out their duties” in preventing noncitizens from voting. Contrary to the Trump administration’s claims of rampant voting by noncitizens, only a negligible number of cases have emerged.
这位前特朗普竞选律师非但没有让美国人安心，让他们相信民权司在确保选举顺利进行，反而利用其职位散布关于美国选举的不确定性。
Rather than give Americans comfort that the Civil Rights Division is there to make sure things run smoothly, the former Trump campaign lawyer has used her perch to spread uncertainty about U.S. elections.
她所领导的部门去年牵头推动各州向联邦政府提交完整的选民名单，这些名单通常包含选民的社会安全号码及驾照信息。迪隆提起多起诉讼，试图迫使那些持怀疑态度的由民主党人领导的州服从规定，但她在法庭上惨遭败绩，至今的胜诉记录为0胜23负。不过，这些屈辱性的败绩仍可能被用作借口，用来质疑下个月的选举结果。目前尚不清楚她的部门是否有足够人手，以及是否有意愿在本次选举日认真处理违反《选举权法》的行为。
Her division led last year’s charge to force states to turn over their full voter rolls which often include Social Security and drivers’ license data, to the federal government. Dhillon filed lawsuits attempting to force skeptical Democratic-led states to comply but has failed miserably in court racking up a 0-23 record in the process. But her humiliating defeats could still provide plenty of bad-faith justification for questioning next month’s election results. And it’s not clear that her division has the personnel or the willingness to take Voting Rights Act violations seriously this Election Day.
近期，大量律师从司法部离职，这对民权司的打击尤为严重。过去该部门通常有约380名律师任职。2025年4月，迪隆在接受右翼评论员格伦·贝克采访时称，已有100多名律师离开，或者如她所言，这些人“决定不愿再履行本职工作”。一个月后，她在联邦主义者协会的一次会议上表示，离职律师人数已增至200人；同年8月，她在Breitbart新闻播客中称，自上任以来，约有300名律师离开了她的部门，离职率高达75%左右。
The ongoing exodus of lawyers from the DOJ has hit the Civil Rights Division extra hard. The division has in the past typically employed around 380 lawyers. Dhillon, in an April 2025 interview with right-wing commentator Glenn Beck, said more than 100 attorneys had left, or as she spun it, they “decided that they’d rather not do what their job requires them to do.”When she spoke at a Federalist Society conference a month later, she said the number of departures had swelled to 200 attorneys, and by that August, she said on a Breitbart News podcast that about 300 attorneys had left her division since her swearing in, roughly a 75% departure rate.
《纽约时报》2026年10月7日报道称，为填补人员空缺，已有130名律师匆忙入职。这些新入职者中，有些人“的学历与工作经历在过去可能根本不符合录用条件”；还有些人多年来发表过大量极端偏党派、带有阴谋论色彩甚至荒诞离奇的言论。
‘CRACKPOTS’: Trump DOJ hiring crooks, conspiracy theorists, unqualified lawyers to push Trump agenda October 7, 2026 The New York Times reported this week that 130 lawyers have rushed in to fill the void and that some of the new hires have “education and work histories that might have disqualified them from being hired in the past” and others who have “left a trail of hyperpartisan, conspiratorial and, in some instances, bizarre statements” in their wake over the years.
迪隆也有自己的说辞。“多年来，民权司一直只从一小部分进步派活动人士中招募人才，却还将其称作‘卓越表现’，”她在接受《纽约时报》采访时说道。她坚称自己招募的律师“具备该部门所需的经验，能够切实执行保障所有美国人权益的民权法律。”
Dhillon has a spin for that, too. “For years, the civil rights division recruited from a narrow pipeline of progressive activists and called it excellence,” she said in a statement to the Times. She insisted that the lawyers she has hired have “the experience this division needs to enforce civil rights laws for every American.”
如今，很难找到既愿意为司法部工作又符合以往招聘标准的律师，这导致整个部门不得不录用那些以往会被拒之门外的人选。2026年3月发布的一份备忘录允许各联邦检察官办公室直接录用刚从法学院毕业的律师，无需满足通常要求的至少一年工作经验。许多被调入刑事司的亲MAGA派律师连一些基本工作都难以胜任。负责在法庭上代表政府应诉的民权司则为那些“调查针对跨性别青少年的治疗措施并推动特朗普政府移民政策实施”的律师提供2.5万美元的奖金。
The inability to find lawyers who want to work for the DOJ and meet its past standards has caused the whole department to hire people who’d have previously been rejected. A March 2026 memo allowed U.S. attorneys’ offices to hire lawyers straight out of law school waiving the typical one-year minimum experience requirement. Many pro-MAGA lawyers that have been brought into the Criminal Division have floundered at some of the basics of their jobs. The Civil Division, which defends the government in court against lawsuits, offered a $25,000g bonus for lawyers “investigating youth transgender treatments and litigating the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.”
显然，在迪隆的领导下，该部门彻底转变了工作方向，这也进一步加剧了她招不到合适律师的困境。如今，迪隆并未切实执行反歧视法律、保护少数群体权益，反而致力于以所谓“反犹太主义”为由起诉顶尖高校，还力挺那些自称遭受种族歧视的白人男性。
Dhillon’s difficulty finding lawyers seems to have clearly been exacerbated by the hard 180-degree turn the division has taken under her leadership. Rather than rightfully enforce antidiscrimination laws and protecting the rights of minority groups, Dhillon has focused on pursuing lawsuits against elite colleges and universities over alleged antisemitism and supporting white men she says have suffered from racism.
下个月即将举行大选，大量深陷MAGA阵营或根本不具备胜任能力的律师涌入司法部，实在令人忧心。
The influx of attorneys who are deep in the MAGA weeds or unqualified for their roles is deeply worrying ahead of next month’s election.
关于选举事务，迪隆因强行派遣大量选举监督员而引发了诸多担忧。去年，这些监督员被派往新泽西州和加利福尼亚州执行监督任务，而这两个州当时并无联邦层面的选举。8月份，《纽约时报》报道称，两名司法部派出的监督员“在怀俄明州初选期间试图询问选民并检查投票站的设备”，此举遭到了该州共和党州长的严厉谴责。
Regarding elections, Dhillon has already drawn concern with her heavy-handed deployment of election monitors. Last year, they were sent to keep watch over elections in New Jersey and California with no federal races on the ballot. In August, the Times reported that two DOJ monitors “tried to interview voters and examine voting machines at polling places during Wyoming’s primaries,” drawing a sharp rebuke from the state’s Republican governor.
同一个月，据《纽约时报》披露，新近入职的律师大卫·莱文以及曾参与质疑2020年大选结果工作的威廉·莫尔曼，在明尼苏达州初选期间因过于靠近投票站而遭到训斥，相关画面也被拍摄下来。
That same month, David Levin, one of the newly hired lawyers the Times named, and William Mohrman, another recent hire who worked on challenges to the 2020 election were captured on video being reprimanded for getting too close to a polling place during Minnesota’s primaries.
迪隆声称，她处理选举相关事务只是在履行“政府的核心职能”。然而，在下个月的大选临近之际，大量深陷MAGA阵营思想影响或根本不具备胜任能力的律师涌入司法部，实在令人忧心。这些本应确保每位美国公民都能安全行使投票权的人，如今很可能要么对种种选民压制现象漠不关心，要么忙于追逐那些毫无根据的“非公民参与投票”的虚假指控。
Dhillon has said that she is merely fulfilling “a core function of government” in her handling of the division’s election portfolio. But the influx of attorneys who are deep in the MAGA weeds or unqualified for their roles is deeply worrying ahead of next month’s election. The people who are meant to be ensuring that every American can safely cast their vote are instead going to likely be either unconcerned about reported voter suppression or distracted chasing down fabricated allegations of voting by people who aren’t citizens. The post Harmeet Dhillon turned the DOJ’s crown jewel into a MAGA disaster MS NOW