All the Republicans of the Senate except one voted on Thursday to confirm the appointment of President Donald Trump on Harmeet Dhillon to serve as an assistant prosecutor.
While the voting of 52-45 was almost entirely in the direction of the parties, Senator Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, joined the Democrats to vote against the confirmation of Dhillon.
Friday morning, Fox News Digital contacted a Murkowski spokesperson to request a comment from the legislator, but did not receive a response at the time of publication.
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Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump’s candidate for the deputy prosecutor general for civil rights, is preparing for his confirmation hearing before the senate judicial committee on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC (SOMODEVILLA / GETTY Images)
Donald Trump, the president of the time, announced in December that Dhillon was his choice to serve as a deputy prosecutor for civil rights to the Ministry of Justice.
“I am happy to appoint Harmeet K. Dhillon as an assistant general prosecutor of civil rights to the United States Ministry of Justice. Throughout his career, Harmeet has regularly standing to protect our dear civil freedoms, in particular by taking great technology to have censored our freedom of expression, representing the Christians who were prevented from praying together during their COVID and their workers “.
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Harmeet Dhillon, nominated as assistant prosecutor, testifies during his confirmation hearing of the Senate’s judicial committee in the Dirksen building on February 26, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)
“Harmeet is one of the best lawyers in the country’s elections, fighting to ensure that everyone, and only legal votes are counted. She graduated from Dartmouth College and the law faculty of the University of Virginia, and has been committed to the United States religious community. And electoral laws fairly and firmly. He added.
Trump recently accused Murkwoski, Maine Susan Collins senator and Kentucky Sens. Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell to have “Trump Derangement syndrome”.
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Harmeet Dhillon, a candidate for the President of the Republican Party, talks about the media after the president of the GOP, Ronna McDaniel, was re -elected during the winter meeting of the 2023 National Republican Committee in Dana Point, in California, January 27, 2023 (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)
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The president called on the four GOP senators before a vote on a measure to sabotage his pricing policy on Canadian products.
The four Republican senators have voted for joint resolution anyway, and this has erased the Senate with all the Democrats in favor.
