When a valiant and powerful defender of Second Amendment rights steps down, someone who shares their commitment to the U.S. Constitution must pick up the flag.
Last week, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced she was returning to private life from her perch atop the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division. She created the new Second Amendment Section virtually from scratch, and her efforts to defend the right to keep and bear arms are well chronicled.
On Tuesday night, her replacement was revealed.
Dhillon’s shoes filled by official with scant record on gun rights
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on X that Craig Trainor is President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the division. To say he has big shoes to fill is an epic understatement, and there is precious little in his background to indicate his qualifications for such a mission.
His most recent work is with Housing and Urban Development, and he practiced law in the Education Department as a litigator and as special counsel.
As for a paper trail, good luck with that one. Ammoland News dug for a speech, writing, social media post, or anything shedding light on Trainor’s Second Amendment views.
The most the outlet could find was a six-year-old piece he penned for The American Conservative in which he noted the Castle Doctrine and that citizens purchase an impressive number of weapons every year.
Dhillon created DOJ’s Second Amendment Section from scratch
There are also general records of his involvement in cases “from unlawful gun possession to racketeering conspiracy,” but no word on his specific roles in legal proceedings.
Hardly incriminating or indicative of much of anything, pro or con. It stands to reason that he will have Dhillon’s broad outlook on gun rights; the question is whether he has the vigor to pursue those who single out the Second Amendment for special restrictions in the manner in which it deserves.
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