Harmeet Dhillon has resigned from her post as chief of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Dhillon is the first top official to leave the Trump administration following the Republicans’ crushing defeat in the midterm elections. Ahead of the midterms, Dhillon was part of Trump’s unsuccessful crusade to force states to turn over sensitive voting data. Dhillon spent her 19-month tenure gutting civil rights, and diversity, equity and inclusion protections in education, and led the campaign to target dozens of universities nationwide over student-led pro-Palestine activism and campus protests. Under Dhillon, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division stopped investigating accusations of systemic racism and sexism, and in January refused to probe the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. Dhillon overhauled the Civil Rights Division from its original purpose of fighting discrimination and Jim Crow-era injustices to prosecute the left and other dissent.