Dhillon tells conservative lawyers to take more civil rights cases

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Dhillon tells conservative lawyers to take more civil rights cases

The leader of the Department of Justice‘s Civil Rights Division issued a rallying cry this week for conservative lawyers to rethink their roles, not just within government but across the broader legal landscape, to defend people’s civil rights.“We’re at a fork in the road in the conservative movement,” Harmeet Dhillon declared at a Federalist Society conference in Washington, pointing to a critical choice for right-leaning lawyers: stick with the well-worn, lucrative path of Big Law defense work or step up to civil rights battles on behalf of ordinary people.“This long-standing career wisdom, which has essentially displayed itself as a tacit ..