Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon accused New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Tuesday of not caring about her law-abiding state residents after she refused to provide information about thousands of residents.

The accusation comes after Sherrill admitted last week that 6,660 noncitizens were accidentally registered to vote by the state's motor vehicle system, and that as many as 400 of those noncitizens did actually vote in a federal election illegally.

Dhillon, who serves as an AAG for the Justice Department's Civil Rights division, asked Sherill for the personal information of thousands of New Jersey residents. Sherrill rejected the request Tuesday.

"Today, I informed [Dhillon] that New Jersey will not provide the personal information of thousands of New Jersey residents," she said on X. "The request had no legal basis, and I will always protect New Jerseyans' personally identifiable information."

Dhillon responded by accusing the governor of failing to protect law-abiding voters and argued that her request was in fact legal because it was grounded in the legal authority to remove ineligible people from a state voter roll.

"Gov. Sherrill’s refusal to cooperate with federal law enforcement does nothing to protect law-abiding NJ voters," she said on X. "NJ has a legal duty to keep ineligible voters off its rolls, & our request is grounded in that legal authority. DOJ will get this information through all legal means!"

Sherrill has blamed the error on a software glitch in the state's motor vehicle system, and admitted that the applicants correctly indicated that they were not U.S. citizens, but the system accidentally recorded them as citizens.

"Our preliminary analysis shows fewer than 400 individuals who were newly registered for the first time because of the error voted," the governor said. "They were registered as Democrats, Republicans and Unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state."

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.