Harmeet Dhillon
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Bondi, given that her interests might diverge from the department?
That is silly and unredeemable.
Did you advise her not to answer questions on particular topics?
I'm sorry?
Did you advise her not to answer questions on particular topics with the president?
If the schools are mandating this and not allowing parents the opportunity to opt out of content that may be inappropriate for them based on religion or values, they would be afoul of that Supreme Court precedent.
And so we have reason to believe that these school districts in Illinois
or not obeying the law.
Well, thank you so much for having me, Glenn, and for your warm introduction.
It was a very moving event.
And the stories you told about the president's family and your own family were also very moving and just demonstrate how important our history is and respecting it and keeping it legal.
And so I'm really proud to be part of that here at the Department of Justice and generally in my law practice and life.
And, you know, I could not love this country more.
Well, I mean, I can believe all of it because we've been compiling this stuff for a while now, and I experienced this type of anti-Christian and really anti-religious bias as a lawyer in private practice over the last several years.
I'll just give you one example.
Our government, not just the DOJ, but various aspects of the government,
viewed people seeking religious accommodations to not have to get the COVID vaccination if they were government employees as not legitimate.
They basically internally labeled all of those accommodation requests illegitimate.
The Biden DOJ continued the Obama DOJ's efforts to go after little sisters of the poor and other Christian organizations like that.
the Bostock memo that effectively took that Bostock ruling, which I disagree with, from the Supreme Court about gay rights, and went way beyond that and basically made it illegitimate for any person employed by the government to have a Christian viewpoint on gay marriage and issues like that, which are very much spiritual and religious in nature.