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Testimony delivered to Congress confirms the U.S. Department of Justice under Joe Biden deliberately skewed the application of federal law to target pro-life activists.
The confirmation comes from Peter Breen, the head of litigation for the Thomas More Society law firm that represented some of those pro-life Americans.
The Biden administration misused the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act to prosecute, convict, and jail those people.
His testimony came before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight regarding the Biden administration's attacks specifically on 23 pro-life protesters.
President Donald Trump pardoned them when he took office.
Breen charged, "The Biden DOJ engaged in a systematic campaign to abuse the power of the federal government against pro-life advocates, while that same DOJ ignored hundreds of acts of vandalism and violence against pro-life churches, pregnancy help centers, and other advocates."
The topic of the hearing was, "Entering the Golden Age: Ending the Weaponization of the Justice Department," and it also featured statements from Chris Swecker, former FBI assistant director of the Criminal Investigations Unit, Jonathan Fahey, a legal partner at Holtzman Vogel, and Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor, according to a report from Fox News.
"They should not have been prosecuted," President Trump had confirmed. "Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this."
Breen added, "On behalf of our clients and the pro-life movement as a whole, we are thankful to President Trump for his recent pardons and to the members of this House who supported that effort. Those pardons sent a powerful message to the country, and especially to the millions of Americans in the pro-life movement, that the federal government should not be weaponized against Americans because of their sincere beliefs in the sanctity of human life."
Biden's campaign against the pro-lifers included claims that they "used force and physical obstruction to execute a clinic blockade."
Pro-life forces now are urging Congress to repeal the FACE Act, since it infringes on the First Amendment and restricts the freedom to protest.
"Of course, we urge Congress to repeal the FACE Act, which is selectively and illegally enforced by pro-abortion presidential administrations. But in the immediate term, Congress has several other concrete steps it can take, working with the new administration to define the proper scope of the laws and to defend the rights of pro-life Americans," Breen explained.
