Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said that roughly three-quarters of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division staff have departed since she took office, citing a shift in enforcement priorities and a federal retirement package during a segment for Breitbart News Sunday .

Dhillon, who was sworn in earlier this year, noted that about 200 of the division’s 400-plus attorneys accepted a government-wide retirement package in her second week in office. She added that another 100 lawyers resigned in the following months, leaving the division down “75 percent” of its prior workforce. Dhillon explained the department is now working to rehire attorneys “who want to do the work as Congress wrote the laws and the courts interpreted the laws.”

She emphasized that th

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