I'm not sure why Harmeet Dhillon is listed as the first counsel of record in this appeal. Or, more accurately, why -- at least according to the docket sheet -- she never substituted out of the case.
Because I'm pretty sure she's been the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights for nearly six months already.
I'm fairly confident that you can't retain your position as counsel of record for someone in a civil lawsuit while simultaneously serving as an official in the United States government.
(Put to another side that she apparently maintains her own law firm. Or the irony, at least to some, of her appointment as the head of the civil rights division.)
