WATCH: Trump DOJ vows to pursue ‘every single’ voting violation after NJ roll shocker
Harmeet Dhillon says DOJ will prosecute every illegal vote found, citing a "broken windows" strategy after New Jersey's noncitizen voter rolls bombshell.
The Justice Department’s top Civil Rights official pledged the Trump administration will pursue every provable case of illegal voting under what she described as a "broken windows" enforcement strategy, marking a sharp shift from prior administrations as the DOJ intensifies scrutiny of voter rolls following revelations that noncitizens were registered to vote in New Jersey.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told Fox News Digital the department's approach is to investigate every credible lead and prosecute every case supported by the evidence, rejecting what she described as the prior view that only widespread fraud or election-altering misconduct warranted federal action.
Mikie Sherrill, D, that thousands of noncitizens ended up on the state's voter rolls through the motor-voter system.
"What’s different, first of all, is the people in charge — and ‘people are policy’," Dhillon said when asked why the DOJ under previous administrations often uncovered alleged election-related wrongdoing but rarely secured convictions.
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