Attorney General Pam Bondi is out, which isn't breaking news. She wasn't the trainwreck I expected in many ways, but that's not saying much. Now, the search for a new attorney general is no doubt underway, and there are a lot of candidates.
One, without even officially trying, just laid down her case for the office better than anyone else could.
Harmeet Dhillon, who currently heads the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice, dropped a warning to Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger over the weekend.
🚨@SpanbergerForVA is on notice: 2A rights SHALL NOT BE infringed.
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) April 10, 2026
We are closely watching—in the event any unlawful legislation is enacted, we will sue. @CivilRights will protect the 2A rights of law-abiding citizens in Virginia.
2A Section Lawyers are standing by… 🚨 pic.twitter.com/h2DfXwgaKC
This. This is what we've needed from the DOJ for generations. This is what the Department of Justice's Civil Rights division should have been doing, in part, for the entire time it has existed.
"SHALL NOT BE infringed."
Four words, but the most important four words we're going to see come out of a public official's "mouth" when talking about the right to keep and bear arms.
We've spent ages seeing the federal government as, at best, agnostic on the issue of gun rights. The guy in office might have talked a big game about respecting them, but nothing really happened to protect them. The best we could hope for was the status quo being maintained, and since the status quo was less than ideal, we were kind of screwed.
Especially as state and local governments continued to stomp all over our rights.
California, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Rhode Island, and many others could pass gun control without concern, because while gun rights groups would fight, it wasn't the feds getting into it. It was almost a rubber stamp that anything they could get away with was good with the DOJ.
And it shouldn't have been.
Dhillon has been an absolute treat in the office, including seeing her start to take her own gun rights more seriously by getting into shooting herself. I've always respected her, but I've genuinely come to like her since she took office, and while a lot of names are being bandied back and forth as the next attorney general, it seems clear that she's the best candidate, especially from a Second Amendment standpoint.
The DOJ looked away on gun rights for far too long. Dhillon has been zealous in going after the worst offenders, and if she had more resources, I suspect that every anti-gun jurisdiction in the country would be dealing with the DOJ breathing down their necks.
We need this.
We've long needed it.
Now that we've got a taste of it, it's clear that we want more of it. We want to get drunk on the idea of the DOJ actually standing with us on our right to keep and bear arms. We're getting the warm, fuzzy feeling of what it's like when the Second Amendment isn't a second-class right. We're seeing what we should have been seeing all along, and Dhillon is the one delivering.
She should be the attorney general so she can do this more. Then, she can not just defend our rights, but be aggressive in pursuing the cases that will really make our nation safer.
I don't trust public officials, by and large, because too many are just too untrustworthy. Dhillon is earning that trust, though, and she's doing it through her deeds and her words.
Of course, if she fails to follow through on this, that'll change, but I don't really get the feeling that I have anything to worry about here, and neither do you.
