2026年10月11日 上午5:00 ET 瑞安·卢卡斯 哈米特·迪隆，美国司法部民权司助理司法部长，2026年8月在华盛顿特区接受采访。
October 11, 2026 5:00 AM ET Ryan Lucas Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the US Department of Justice, during an interview in Washington, D.C., in August 2026.
阿尔·德拉戈/彭博社通过盖蒂图片社提供 当哈米特·迪隆去年四月接任司法部民权司新任司长时，这位保守派律师誓言要彻底重塑这个历史悠久的部门及其使命。
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images When Harmeet Dhillon took over as the new chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division last April, the conservative attorney vowed to radically reshape the storied unit and its mission.
过去18个月里，迪隆积极推进这一目标的实现。根据四名现任和前任民权司官员的说法，她已经驱逐了数百名资深律师，用缺乏经验的意识形态盟友取代了他们，并利用该部门的执法权力推进特朗普总统的MAGA议程。其中三人出于对报复的恐惧，要求匿名。
Over the past 18 months, Dhillon has moved aggressively to make that goal a reality. She has pushed out hundreds of longtime attorneys, replaced many of them with inexperienced ideological allies, and used the division's enforcement powers to pursue President Trump's MAGA agenda, according to four current and former division officials. Three of the individuals spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution.
这些变化的根源在于迪隆对民权司及其使命的愿景，这种愿景与传统背道而驰。
At the root of these changes is Dhillon's vision of the Civil Rights Division and its mission that dramatically departs from tradition.
民权司成立于近70年前的结束种族隔离运动期间，历史上一直致力于在从投票和住房到就业、教育和警务的各个方面打击歧视，保护所有美国人的宪法权利。该部门的优先事项随行政更迭而变化，但其核心工作始终保持一致。
Created almost 70 years ago during the movement to end racial segregation, the Civil Rights Division historically has sought to combat discrimination and protect the constitutional rights of all Americans in everything from voting and housing to employment, education and policing. The division's priorities have shifted from administration to administration, although its core work has remained consistent.
但迪隆出生于印度，童年时期移民美国，她认为多年来，该部门的使命已经狭隘化，仅致力于保护社会中一个群体的权利：有色人种。
But Dhillon, who was born in India and immigrated to the U.S. as a child, argues that over the years the division's mission has narrowed to protecting the rights of just one segment of society: people of color.
在她看来，这导致了一种旨在惩罚“过去可能对历史罪行负有责任者的后裔”的“仁慈的种族主义”形式。
In her view, that has created a form of "benevolent racism" designed to punish "the descendants of those who may have been responsible for the sins of the past."
正如她去年十一月在联邦党人学会的一次活动中所说：“按照这种逻辑，过去压迫黑人和棕色人种的白人压迫者让他们处于不利地位，为什么不让他们也尝尝自己的苦果？”她补充道：“这实际上是我们很多民权执法工作背后的思考。”自特朗普上台以来，焦点发生了转变。
"As the logic goes, the white oppressors of years past kept Brown and Black people down, why not give them a taste of their own medicine?" she said last November at an event for the conservative Federalist Society. "That's the thinking really that underlies a lot of our civil rights enforcement work." Transformed focus since Trump took over That all changed, she said, in 2025 when President Trump returned to office and Dhillon arrived at the Justice Department.
她表示，这一切在2025年发生了改变——当时特朗普总统重返白宫，而迪隆来到司法部任职。
Since then, the division has dropped investigations and withdrawn statements of interest in dozens of cases, including those involving voting rights, racial discrimination and civil actions against anti-abortion activists.
此后，该部门在数十起案件中撤销了调查并撤回了利益声明，这些案件涉及投票权、种族歧视以及针对反堕胎活动者的民事诉讼。它还终止了对警察部门涉嫌违宪行为的调查。
It has ended investigations into police departments over alleged constitutional violations. Some of the most aggressive work of her tenure has been on the voting front, where the division has sent monitors to keep tabs on states' primary elections, and filed lawsuits demanding voter information from a slew of states, in furtherance of Trump's focus on alleged election fraud by noncitizens.
她任期内最激进的工作之一发生在投票领域：该部门派遣监督员监督各州的初选，并对众多州提起诉讼，要求提供选民信息，以推进特朗普对非公民涉嫌选举欺诈的关注。
State election officials—Republican and Democratic—have pushed back, accusing the Justice Department of overreach.
州选举官员——无论是共和党人还是民主党人——都对此表示反对，指责司法部越权。法官已经驳回了该部门超过两 dozen（即24起）起诉讼，其中最近的一起是在佐治亚州。教育也是另一个活跃的前线。
Judges have tossed more than two dozen of the department's lawsuits, including most recently in Georgia Education has been another active front. In just the past two months, the Civil Rights Division has accused law schools at the University of California, Berkeley and Duke University as well as the medical schools at the University of California, San Francisco and George Washington University of discriminating against white and Asian students in admissions. It also has sued UCLA Harvard for allegedly allowing antisemitism to flourish on campus.
就在过去两个月里，民权部门指责加州大学伯克利分校和杜克大学的法学院，以及加州大学旧金山分校和乔治华盛顿大学的医学院，在招生过程中歧视白人和亚裔学生。
In August, a federal judge dismissed the department's lawsuit against Harvard, finding the claims of antisemitism were "too isolated and episodic" to prove the school was violating civil rights laws.
它还起诉了加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）和哈佛大学，称其 allegedly 允许反犹太主义在校园中滋生。
In a statement to NPR, Dhillon defended the division's work under her leadership.
八月，一名联邦法官驳回了该部门对哈佛大学的诉讼，认为反犹太主义的指控“过于孤立和零星”，无法证明该校违反了民权法。在接受NPR采访时，迪隆为她领导下的部门工作进行了辩护。
"Under this administration, the division has held universities accountable for antisemitic harassment, defended the constitutional rights of Americans of every faith, and protected the integrity of federal elections," she said. "Civil rights laws exist to protect individuals from discrimination, and that is exactly how we enforce them.
她说：“在此届政府领导下，该部门已追究大学在反犹太骚扰方面的责任，捍卫了各信仰美国人的宪法权利，并保护了联邦选举的公正性。民权法的存在是为了保护个人免受歧视，而我们正是如此执行这些法律的。批评者称平等执行为‘武器化’，这恰恰暴露了他们自己。”三名现任和前任部门官员表示，虽然多个部门的工作发生了巨大变化，但并非所有单位受到的影响程度相同。
Critics calling equal enforcement 'weaponization' are telling on themselves." While several sections have seen drastic changes in their work, not every unit has been affected to the same degree, three current and former division officials say.
例如，负责住房和残疾权利的部门，仍在继续他们传统上所做的大量工作。去年，例如，该部门起诉优步拒绝为携带服务犬或使用轮椅的乘客提供服务。
Sections that address housing and disability rights, for example, are still doing a lot of the work they've traditionally done. Last year, for example, the department sued Uber for denying rides to passengers with service dogs or wheelchairs.
旧的出去，新的进来 迪隆实现她愿景的一种方式是通过改变执行工作的人员——即部门的律师和员工。她上任不久就指责部门律师在推行左翼议程。
Out with the old, in with the new One of the ways Dhillon has moved to implement her vision is through changes to those who do the work: the division's lawyers and staff. Early on in her tenure, she accused division attorneys of pursuing a left-wing agenda.
她去年在接受格伦·贝克采访时说：“这里的工作是执行联邦民权法，而不是推行觉醒意识形态。”她鼓励那些不愿实施她对部门使命愿景的律师和员工离开该部门。
"The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology," Dhillon told Glenn Beck in an interview last year. She encouraged attorneys and staff who didn't want to implement her vision of the division's mission to leave the department.
多达80%的部门员工正是这样做的——在这波离职潮中，部门的制度知识遭到严重削弱。
Up to 80% of the division staff did exactly that in a wave of departures that has decimated the division's institutional knowledge.
大规模人员外流的大部分发生在特朗普政府“政府效率部”（DOGE）裁员高峰期间，现任和前任司法部官员表示，许多人选择离职或提前退休，以避免来自上层的裁员。
Much of the mass exodus occurred during the height of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE cuts, and current and former division officials say many people left or opted to retire early to prevent staff cuts imposed from on high.
现任和前任官员表示，这导致该部门人手严重不足——人才、专业知识和基本人力都出现了流失。
Current and former officials say that has left the division shorthanded—depleted of talent, expertise and basic manpower.
“几乎没有人在那里从事民权工作，”曾在该部门工作超过十年、2017年离职的乔治城大学法学院教授克里斯蒂·洛佩兹说。
"There are so few people there doing civil rights work at all," said Georgetown Law professor Christy Lopez, who worked for more than a decade in the division before leaving in 2017.
自特朗普重返白宫以来，据现任和前任官员透露，该部门约有300名律师离职。司法部表示，已有约130人被聘用以填补这些空缺。
Since Trump returned to office, some 300 attorneys have left the division, according to current and former officials. The Justice Department says some 130 have been hired to replace them.
现任和前任官员称，目前该部门在第二届特朗普政府期间新聘的律师人数，已超过之前各届政府留存的律师人数。
There are now more division attorneys hired during the second Trump administration than there are holdovers from previous administrations, according to current and former officials.
关于政治化招聘的指控 现任和前任官员称，迪隆改变了招聘流程，无视那些旨在使招聘免受党派政治考量影响的规定。
Accusations of political hiring Current and former officials say Dhillon has changed the hiring process, shrugging off rules that were meant to insulate it from partisan political considerations.
这些规定是在大约二十年前制定的，当时乔治·W·布什政府时期因政治化招聘丑闻而出台——该部门当时流失了约70%的律师，而政治任命官被指控阻止律师调查案件。
The rules were put in place some two decades ago after a scandal over political hiring during the George W. Bush administration, when the division lost some 70% of its attorneys and political appointees were accused of prohibiting attorneys from investigating cases.
作为回应，该部门修改了政策，让非政治性的职业员工在招聘过程中发挥主导作用。职业律师负责审阅简历、进行面试，然后撰写备忘录推荐候选人。部门前 office 会审查该备忘录，并将其提交给司法部长以作最终决定。现任和前任官员表示，该推荐几乎总是被采纳。
In response, the division changed its policies to give non-political career staff a leading role in hiring. Career attorneys would review resumes, conduct interviews and then write a memo recommending a candidate to hire. The division's front office would then review the memo, and send it to the attorney general for a final decision. The recommendation was almost always honored, current and former officials say.
这些规则的制定是为了防止政治决定谁能进入民权部门工作，而不是基于功绩、经验、技能以及对民权工作的承诺，洛佩兹说。
"Those rules were put in place to prevent politics from dictating who gets a job with the Civil Rights Division rather than merit, rather than their experience and their skills and their commitment to civil rights work," Lopez said.
然而，在迪隆的领导下，由政治任命者和意识形态盟友组成的前线办公室已经将常规职业员工排除在招聘流程之外，并主导了招聘工作。
Under Dhillon, however, the front office, which is made up of political appointees and ideological allies, has removed the usual career staff from the process and taken the lead in hiring.
司法部发言人否认招聘流程有任何变化。"职业员工招聘职业员工，就像之前的政府一样。任何其他说法都是出于政治偏见的故意歪曲，"发言人说。"结果是我们招聘了130名杰出的新律师，其中许多人曾在联邦地区法院和上诉法院担任书记员。我们为他们每一个人感到自豪，他们已经在加强该部门的执法工作。"但现任和前任官员表示，政治意识形态似乎在招聘决策中起到了重要作用。
A Justice Department spokesperson denied that any changes have been made to the hiring process. "Career staff hire career staff, just as in prior administrations. Any claim otherwise is a deliberate misrepresentation driven by political bias," the spokesperson said. "The result is 130 outstanding new attorneys, many of whom clerked for federal district and appellate judges. We are proud of every one of them, and they are already strengthening the Division's enforcement work." But current and former officials say political ideology appears to be a significant factor in hiring decisions.
一些新招聘的人之前曾在保守派法律组织工作，包括太平洋法律基金会和仅公民投票联盟。此外，人们对被招聘者的资质也存在严重担忧。
Some of the new hires have previously worked for conservative legal groups, including the Pacific Legal Foundation and Only Citizens Vote Coalition. There also are serious concerns about the qualifications of many of the people being hired.
现任和前任官员表示，被招聘的大多数律师在民权工作方面几乎没有经验，甚至根本没有经验。其中一些人几乎没有任何法律经验，这阻碍了该部门推进特朗普议程的一些努力。"如果哈米特想招聘既能推动总统优先事项，又能继续该部门执法工作——其传统执法工作的人选，我还能理解，"去年离开该部门并在美国公民自由联盟工作的德纳·罗宾逊说。"但事实并非如此。"
Current and former officials say most of the attorneys who have been hired don't have much experience—if any—in civil rights work. Some of them have little legal experience at all, which has hampered some of the division's efforts to pursue Trump's agenda. "I could understand it if Harmeet wanted to bring in people who could both further the president's priorities and also continue with the division's enforcement work, its traditional enforcement work," said Dena Robinson, who left the division last year and now works at the ACLU. "But that's just not happening anymore."