Harmeet Dhillon

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The Department of Justice announced on April 10, 2026, that IBM agreed to pay $17,077,043 to resolve the first-ever False Claims Act settlement under the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, resolving allegations that IBM maintained diversity hiring targets in federal contracts after EO 14173. The DOJ alleged IBM used a "diversity modifier" tying manager bonuses to demographic hiring targets and applied race- and sex-based criteria to interview slates and candidate sourcing. IBM received cooperation credit for early disclosure and voluntarily remediated its practices, but neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing.

U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin dismisses the Justice Department's lawsuit against Massachusetts Secretary of State William Francis Galvin seeking state voter registration data including partial Social Security numbers. Sorokin rules DOJ used the wrong legal process, the Civil Rights Act of 1960 requires an administrative records demand before filing suit, and DOJ skipped that step. The ruling is the fifth federal court defeat for the administration's voter data campaign. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell had argued the federal request exceeded both the statute's authorization and state privacy protections.

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division sues Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane for refusing to hand over the state's complete voter registration database, including partial Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers. The lawsuit, the 30th DOJ action against states for voter data, invokes the Civil Rights Act of 1960 and NVRA. McGrane, a Republican, reversed his earlier willingness to cooperate in February 2026, citing Idaho state privacy law and arguing there is "no clear legal duty" to provide partial SSNs to the federal government.

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division sued Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane on April 1, 2026, demanding that Idaho turn over its complete statewide voter registration database, including partial Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers. The lawsuit marked the DOJ's 30th action against states (plus D.C.) for not complying with federal demands for voter data. McGrane had initially appeared willing to cooperate when the DOJ first requested Idaho's voter rolls in September 2025, but the state reversed course in February 2026, with McGrane citing "no clear legal duty" to comply and pointing to Idaho state privacy law. The DOJ invoked the Civil Rights Act of 1960 Title III and the National Voter Registration Act as the legal basis for its demands. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, said the lawsuit is part of the department's effort to ensure states comply with federal voter data requests. Federal judges have already dismissed similar DOJ lawsuits in California, Michigan, and Oregon, while 17 Republican-led states have agreed to share voter data with the federal government.

US Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko rejected the DOJ complaint against Don Lemon on January 22, writing "No Probable Cause" in the margin on FACE Act charges, citing lack of evidence that Lemon participated in physical obstruction of religious worship. Despite this rejection, DOJ proceeded to arrest Lemon on January 30 under revised charges including conspiracy against rights of religious freedom. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison publicly stated that the anti-ICE protesters had not violated the FACE Act, as the law protects access to religious services and the protesters were targeting the ICE field director pastor's dual role.