Dhillon defends DOJ’s noncitizen voter probe amid midterm scrutiny
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon defended the Trump administration’s aggressive investigation into noncitizen voting during a CBS '60 Minutes' interview on October 18, 2026. She rejected claims that the Justice Department is sowing distrust in the election system, arguing instead that the current enforcement strategy addresses existing distrust by prosecuting cases in volume for the first time. Dhillon noted that while the prior Biden administration prosecuted 13 individuals for noncitizen voting, the current administration has thousands of cases under review. She clarified that while illegal votes could lead to challenges of individual ballots, she ruled out any federal interference in the certification of state-wide election results. The DOJ emphasized that every illegal vote negates a lawful citizen’s vote, citing the narrow margins of past races like Iowa’s 2020 congressional contest.
