(The Center Square) – San Francisco lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump’s nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights, emphasized her career in defending vulnerable populations at a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing that covered everything from voting rights to U.S. history.

Questions fell Wednesday morning along party lines during the approximately three-hour Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where Republicans praised Dhillon on her record and Democrats pressed her and two other Trump nominees on whether they and the president would follow court orders.