The vast majority of House Democrats once again voted against legislation that aims to require individuals to show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in elections for federal office.
On Thursday, 214 Republicans and four Democrats voted for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(SAVE) Act</a>, enough for the bill to pass in the House for the second time in two years. Another 208 Democrats and no Republicans voted against it.
&#8220;Every single Democrat that voted against the SAVE Act voted to undermine election integrity and their constituents’ voice,&#8221; House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told The Daily Wire. &#8220;It is shameful they care more about empowering illegal aliens than American citizens.&#8221;
The bill, introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), seeks to &#8220;amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office.&#8221; It also instructs states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls and establish a process for applicants lacking documentary proof to submit alternative evidence to verify U.S. citizenship.
While some municipalities in states like California, Maryland, and Vermont, along with Washington, D.C., <a href="https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/four-things-to-know-about-noncitizen-voting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">permit</a> non-citizens to vote in certain local elections using separate voter rolls, evidence suggests there have been instances of non-citizens appearing on voter rolls for state and federal elections in places where this is prohibited by law.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released a <a href="https://mikejohnson.house.gov/uploadedfiles/save_act_white_paper.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> last year that warned of a National Voter Registration Act “loophole” in which states do not ask for proof of citizenship when registering an individual to vote in federal elections. It also cited evidence of non-citizens getting on voter rolls and, in some instances, illegally casting ballots for U.S. elections.
Critics of Roy&#8217;s bill have argued it is unnecessary and would create an undue burden on legitimate voters — in particular, women.
&#8220;The SAVE Act is yet another bogus attempt by Republicans to suppress the vote — and this time, they’re targeting women,&#8221; Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said in a <a href="https://x.com/RepJasmine/status/1906747100764713203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X, adding the legislation would &#8220;make it damn near impossible for millions of women who changed their last name after marriage to cast a ballot.&#8221;
Roy delivered a retort during an <a href="https://x.com/RepChipRoy/status/1904721299966193741" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> on &#8220;The Will Cain Show&#8221; from Fox News.
&#8220;People in the radical Left are trying to say, &#8216;Oh! This is going to prevent, like, married women from voting because if they get married, their name changes.&#8217; &#8230; It&#8217;s all bogus. It&#8217;s all a lie made up by the radical Left. All this will do is prevent illegals from voting,&#8221; Roy said.
<a href="https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/1910355241658179727" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Four</a> Democrats voted in support of the bill, including Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA), Jared Golden (ME), and Ed Case (HI). Last July, five Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-all-house-dems-vote-against-bill-requiring-voters-prove-citizenship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did</a> the same.
The SAVE Act’s latest vote follows broader efforts to tighten voter registration rules, including an executive order <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-historic-executive-order-to-help-secure-u-s-elections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> by President Donald Trump that threatens to strip federal funds from states that do not require proof of citizenship to register for federal elections.

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Most House Dems Vote Against Bill To Require Voters Prove Citizenship — Again

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In a major triumph for President Donald Trump, the GOP-led House passed a budget plan on Thursday morning that lays the groundwork for his domestic priorities in &#8220;one big, beautiful bill,&#8221; overcoming resistance from a group of conservatives disappointed by a lack of deeper spending cuts.
The amended <a href="https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/senate_amendment_h_con_res_14.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a>, already cleared by the Senate, provides a blueprint for lawmakers to craft legislation via the budget reconciliation process. Negotiations with GOP holdouts in the House stretched to the last moment, and <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1910350835969638674" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ultimately,</a> 216 Republicans and no Democrats voted in favor of the measure. Two Republicans and 212 Democrats voted against it.
President Trump immediately <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114314374220244880">responded</a> on Truth Social: &#8220;Congratulations to the House on the passage of a Bill that sets the stage for one of the Greatest and Most Important Signings in the History of our Country,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Among many other things, it will be the Largest Tax and Regulation Cuts ever even contemplated. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!&#8221;
The resolution seeks to retain the 2017 tax cuts set to expire this year, raise the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, and increase spending on border security and defense. It also includes several billion dollars in spending reductions — far less than the more than $2 trillion goal in the original resolution narrowly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-one-big-beautiful-budget-vision-clears-house-in-massive-victory-for-mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> by the House in February.
When taking up the initial House resolution, the <a href="https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1905623315378471013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Byrd Rule</a> constrained the Senate to focus solely on fiscal measures like extending tax cuts and raising the debt ceiling while stripping out non-budgetary provisions. The lesser spending-reduction goals that made it into the Senate&#8217;s amended version proved to be disagreeable for several House conservatives.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) held a joint press conference with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Thursday morning before the vote to assuage the concerns of the House GOP holdouts.
&#8220;Our ambition in the Senate is we are aligned with the House in terms of what their budget resolution outlined in terms of savings,&#8221; Thune <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlwW0Zf-l9w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;The speaker has talked about one and a half trillion dollars. We have a lot of United States senators who believe that is a minimum.&#8221;
On Tuesday evening, following a meeting at the White House with House Republicans, Trump chided the Republicans who still opposed the budget framework during remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) dinner in Washington, D.C.
&#8220;Just in case there are a couple of Republicans out there: you just gotta get there. Close your eyes and get there. It’s a phenomenal bill. Stop grandstanding,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stop-grandstanding-trump-tells-gop-holdouts-in-budget-revolt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. He also <a href="https://grabien.com/story?id=522138" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> that those pushing for &#8220;a little bit more&#8221; would &#8220;end up getting a Democrat bill or worse.&#8221;
There had been as many as a few dozen GOP holdouts earlier in the week, but in the end, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Victoria Spartz (R-IN) were the only House Republicans to vote against the Senate plan.
&#8220;If you were trying to hasten financial collapse of our country and bribe voters to go along with it, the strategy wouldn’t look much different than what Congress is doing today,&#8221; Massie <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1910338145826091429" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X. &#8220;The big beautiful bill cuts taxes while keeping spending on an increasingly unsustainable trajectory.&#8221;
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), one of the most vocal critics among House conservatives of the Senate’s budget resolution amendment, ended up supporting it.
In a lengthy <a href="https://x.com/RepChipRoy/status/1910376175450411382" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> posted on X, Roy said he &#8220;reluctantly&#8221; voted for the resolution &#8220;on the basis of three specific commitments&#8221; related to spending cuts. He alluded to Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114304634655292901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> desire for more than $1 trillion in reductions as one assurance. Roy also noted the budget reconciliation effort provides &#8220;the opportunity for Congress to simply make a down payment on our $36 trillion national debt.&#8221;
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Democrats who oppose the budget plan have <a href="https://x.com/HouseDemocrats/status/1909984102641512926" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> that it could lead to $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid while benefiting the wealthy.
&#8220;House Republicans want to cut $880 billion from Medicaid to pay for tax breaks for billionaires,&#8221; the House Democrats <a href="https://x.com/HouseDemocrats/status/1909984102641512926" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X. &#8220;One thing is clear: The Republican Budget will leave hardworking American families worse off.&#8221;
The resolution does call on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees Medicaid, to work on reducing the deficit by at least $880 billion over the next 10 years. However, it does not have instructions that explicitly say Medicaid is a target for cutting.
&#8220;Democrats are purposefully terrifying the everyday Americans they profess to care about,&#8221; the GOP-led House Rules Committee <a href="https://x.com/RulesReps/status/1910056694236819894" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;Why? For political gain. We&#8217;d tell them to read the resolution, but they already know there isn&#8217;t any targeting of specific programs.&#8221;
A pair of Republicans, Reps. David Valadao (R-CA) and Bob Onder (R-MO), did not cast votes for the budget plan on Thursday. Rep. Donald Norcross (D-NJ), who recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-dem-suffers-emergency-medical-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered</a> an &#8220;emergency medical event,&#8221; also did not vote. Two seats remained vacant after Reps. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Sylvester Turner (D-TX) died last month. Special elections are scheduled for later this year.
The White House has <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/fact-check-president-trump-will-always-protect-social-security-medicare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a &#8220;fact check&#8221; page on its website highlighting Trump saying on multiple occasions that he would not mess with Medicaid, along with Medicare and Social Security, while noting that fraud and illegal immigrants would be rooted out from the system.
Before the Senate <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00191.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> its version of the budget framework over the weekend, it held an overnight &#8220;vote-a-rama&#8221; with several amendment votes. During that process, the upper chamber rejected a Democrat amendment to remove the section that has stoked concerns about a potential $880 billion cut to Medicaid. Three Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) — joined with Democrats and independents <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00189.htm#position" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voting</a> in favor of the change.
Now, with the budget framework approved by both chambers of Congress, lawmakers will work on developing legislation.
Under the budget reconciliation process, the Senate requires only a simple majority — or 51 votes — to pass whatever bill is devised, bypassing the three-fifths majority threshold needed to overcome a filibuster. Currently, the Senate GOP has a 53-47 majority.
Speaker Johnson <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1908619838915817864" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized</a> in a post on X on Saturday that the budget resolution is not the law itself but only the &#8220;necessary kickoff&#8221; for the reconciliation process to begin. He said the &#8220;amended resolution in NO WAY prevents us from achieving our goals in the final reconciliation bill&#8221; and noted the process would &#8220;involve input from all Members and will keep us on track to send a bill to the President’s desk by Memorial Day.&#8221;
The White House released a policy <a href="https://x.com/WHOMB/status/1910050176787526124" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that said Trump&#8217;s administration &#8220;strongly supports&#8221; the Senate plan, which it linked to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort.
&#8220;President Trump has demonstrated through numerous concrete actions his firm commitment to cutting wasteful spending,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;This resolution aligns with his mission by paving the way for historic cuts to root out rampant waste, fraud, and abuse across the Federal Government, while responsibly addressing the debt extension.&#8221;

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Dr. Eithan Haim, the surgeon who blew the whistle on Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital providing transgender procedures and drugs to minors testified to Congress on Wednesday about the Biden administration&#8217;s failed criminal prosecution against him.
Back in 2023, Haim <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-childrens-hospital-performs-sex-change-procedures-on-children-as-young-as-11-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went</a> to the media anonymously and exposed the Houston Children&#8217;s Hospital for secretly continuing to perform transgender medical procedures on children despite the hospital&#8217;s public statements saying they had paused them.
Those procedures reportedly included the hospital inserting a &#8220;drug delivery implant&#8221; for &#8220;gender dysphoria&#8221; into the arm of an 11-year-old girl as well as multiple other children 15 and younger.
&#8220;They not only continued their program. They expanded it. All this was happening behind closed doors,&#8221; Haim <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/ending-lawfare-against-whistleblowers-who-protect-children-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> Wednesday to the House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government.
&#8220;For exposing this truth my own government manufactured a case to send me to prison for 10 years,&#8221; he said.
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Two armed federal agents showed up to Haim&#8217;s home on his graduation day for his surgical residency, Haim said.
The Biden Justice Department charged Haim with four felonies related to HIPAA.
In January, just after President Donald Trump took office, the Justice Department dropped the charges against Haim. He had been slated to go on trial in February.
&#8220;This was a political witch hunt,&#8221; Haim told lawmakers.
&#8220;From the very beginning, I knew this was nothing more than a charade,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I knew this because I never violated HIPAA. I never accessed the records of transgender patients or released any identifiable information. All of it was fully redacted, de-identified hospital data, which is used every single day to report infectious disease outbreaks like measles or conduct retrospective research studies.&#8221;
Tina Ansari, the associate U.S. Attorney who was prosecuting Haim admitted to Haim&#8217;s attorneys that she had not reviewed the evidence before sending federal agents to his home, Haim told lawmakers.
&#8220;She didn&#8217;t even know what statute she was investigating,&#8221; Haim said.
&#8220;Ansari threatened my wife, who had just been hired as an associate U.S. attorney in Dallas,&#8221; Haim said.
Haim&#8217;s attorney, Mark Lytle, who also testified on Wednesday, said Ansari had implied to him that she would not interfere in Haim&#8217;s wife&#8217;s legal career &#8220;unless she became difficult.&#8221;
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t really know what that meant, but I took it to mean a retaliatory phrase, that if she&#8217;s going to be involved in this then there&#8217;s going to be something that&#8217;s going to come for her too,&#8221; Lytle said.
The initial indictment accused Haim of hacking into the hospital&#8217;s electronic medical records system, which Haim called &#8220;pure fiction.&#8221;
&#8220;The DOJ&#8217;s own evidence, their own evidence that they gave us in discovery disproved every single one of the claims against us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Ansari and her team either never reviewed this evidence or they ignored it.&#8221;
Later it was discovered that Ansari&#8217;s family had &#8220;quite the special relationship&#8221; with the hospital, Haim said, and Ansari was later removed from the case due to her conflict of interest.
&#8220;This can&#8217;t be the end of it. There has to be accountability when the unlimited resources of the federal government are used to destroy the lives of ordinary American citizens.&#8221;
Also testifying on Wednesday was Vanessa Sivadge, the former nurse at Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital who also became a whistleblower on the transgender practices on children.

Dr. Eithan Haim

‘Threatened My Wife:’ Texas Children’s Whistleblower Eithan Haim Testifies On Biden DOJ’s Lawfare

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An election integrity bill is expected to make a comeback in Congress next week.
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(SAVE) Act</a>, introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), seeks to &#8220;amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office.&#8221;
Although the GOP-led House last year passed the SAVE Act, which also pushes states to remove non-citizens from voter rolls, the bill never got a vote in the Democrat-controlled Senate. Now, both chambers of Congress are commanded by Republicans.
On Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1905722988751937942" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> in a post on X that the lower chamber &#8220;will vote on the SAVE Act to ensure ONLY American citizens vote in American elections&#8221; next week.
The moves came after President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-historic-executive-order-to-help-secure-u-s-elections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an executive order that threatens to strip federal funds from states that do not require proof of citizenship to register for federal elections.
Only five Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-all-house-dems-vote-against-bill-requiring-voters-prove-citizenship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> with the majority of Republicans voted to pass the SAVE Act through the House last July.
Critics, including former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, argued the bill was unnecessary and would create an undue burden on legitimate voters.
But a <a href="https://mikejohnson.house.gov/uploadedfiles/save_act_white_paper.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Johnson warned of a National Voter Registration Act “loophole” in which states do not ask for proof of citizenship when registering an individual to vote in federal elections and cited evidence of non-citizens appearing on voter rolls in places such as Massachusetts, Ohio, and Virginia.
During an <a href="https://x.com/RepChipRoy/status/1904721299966193741" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> on &#8220;The Will Cain Show&#8221; from Fox News, Roy delivered a retort to his bill&#8217;s detractors.
&#8220;People in the radical Left are trying to say, &#8216;Oh! This is going to prevent, like, married women from voting because if they get married, their name changes.&#8217; &#8230; It&#8217;s all bogus. It&#8217;s all a lie made up by the radical Left. All this will do is prevent illegals from voting,&#8221; Roy said.
The House is also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-to-vote-on-restraining-nationwide-injunctions-stop-judicial-overreach-against-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slated</a> to vote next week on a bill that would stem the tide of federal judges who have issued nationwide injunctions against elements of Trump’s second-term agenda.

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks, with Rep. Chip Roy in the background

House To Again Vote On Bill Requiring Voters Prove Citizenship

Passing a stopgap bill to avert a partial shutdown of the federal government at the end of this week is the &#8220;most fiscally responsible thing we can do at this moment,&#8221; Texas Congressman Chip Roy told Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro.
Joining The Ben Shapiro Show for an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/bss-ep-2154-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> Monday, Roy argued in favor of the latest <a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-appropriations.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/bill-text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continuing resolution</a> as a means to give the Trump administration&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) more time to identify fiscal bloat to cut spending.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not a huge fan of the kick the can down the road continuing resolution as the best form of how we fund our government, but what I do believe is that you&#8217;ve got to figure out how to empower President Trump and Elon to continue to keep the lights on to carry out DOGE,&#8221; Roy said.
Roy said he is still combing through the 99-page bill, which was released on Saturday, but emphasized that it puts a stranglehold on spending.
&#8220;It has no earmarks,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t allow the defense hawks, who really wanted a whole bunch more money, to screw up the whole process by throwing a bunch of money into it and then the non-defense Democrats want more money. So this is a win to keep the lights on for six months for Elon. The Democrats have threatened to shut down, so they can stop Elon. So this puts them in a box. It&#8217;s the most fiscally responsible thing we can do at this moment.&#8221;
A partial shutdown, during which non-essential federal employees will be furloughed, is set to begin on March 15 if a funding bill is not passed in time. The Republican-led House is currently moving forward with the continuing resolution, which will be sent to the Senate for approval if passed by the lower chamber. President Donald Trump has <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114128213945115106" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> the bill.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) also praised the in an interview with Morning Wire on Monday.
&#8220;Well, what the bill does is essentially freeze the spending for the rest of the year. In fact, it actually lowers it a little bit,&#8221; Harris told Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley he was confident the bill would pass and fund the government  through September 30. Like Roy, Harris said this is crucial because it will allow DOGE to continue its work without interruption.
&#8220;We can&#8217;t shut down the government now because Elon won&#8217;t be able to do the work he needs to do, Harris said, &#8220;So we need to keep the government open.&#8221;
Yet the work does not stop there, Roy stressed.
&#8220;We&#8217;ll have to do our job in the appropriations process for this next cycle — which by the way, this appropriations cycle ends on September 30th,&#8221; Roy said. &#8220;So we&#8217;ve got to get all that passed for [fiscal year 2026] by September. So we should focus on that and then get reconciliation done, which is where we deal with mandatory spending and tax policy.&#8221;
The budget reconciliation process is already underway with the House recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-hypes-shutdown-averting-bill-that-conservatives-will-love" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passing</a> a resolution that outlines fiscal priorities for future spending legislation in line with Trump&#8217;s domestic agenda priorities on national defense, border security, and tax cuts.
Not all conservatives are on board with leadership resorting to another continuing resolution. But Roy insisted House Republcians&#8217; overall strategy for spending takes fiscal responsibility to heart. The congressman also noted that Republicans have such tools as impoundment and rescission to potentially help them get the job done.
&#8220;I&#8217;m always weary, as you are and should be — we both should be — of the excuses in this town,&#8221; Roy said. &#8220;There&#8217;s always an excuse not to deliver. What I would push back on people right now is — we&#8217;re delivering. A spending freeze in an inflationary environment is a huge win, trust me.&#8221;

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‘Fiscally Responsible’: Chip Roy Vouches For Trump-Backed Stopgap Measure To Avert Gov’t Shutdown

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Republican lawmakers praised President Donald Trump over an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-trump-to-pardon-imprisoned-pro-life-activists-within-days?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected pardon</a> for pro-lifers prosecuted and imprisoned by the Biden administration over peaceful protests at abortion facilities.  
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said Thursday that it would be a victory for America after The Daily Wire reported that pardoning the pro-lifers targeted by the Biden administration was an immediate priority for Trump’s team and could come in a matter of days. Under Biden, the Justice Department successfully prosecuted nearly two dozen pro-lifers under the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that makes it a federal crime to stand in front of an abortion facility entrance. 
&#8220;It is tremendous news to hear the news that President Trump will soon pardon the brave pro-life Americans who were unjustly targeted by Biden’s weaponized DOJ,” Roy told The Daily Wire. “These Americans are peaceful, pro-life Americans who were singled out and targeted by their government solely because of their beliefs.”
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Roy also urged the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/roy-introduces-bill-to-repeal-law-used-to-imprison-pro-life-activists">passage of a bill</a> he has sponsored to repeal the FACE Act, which has been disproportionately used against pro-lifers despite assurances it is also supposed to protect churches and crisis pregnancy centers. Lee has sponsored a companion bill in the Senate. 
“A victory for people of faith and the rule of law in America Unjust &amp; unequal application of the FACE Act against Pro Life activists stops under President Trump. Let’s pass my bill with [Chip Roy] to repeal the FACE Act to end these political persecutions forever,” Lee <a href="https://x.com/SenMikeLee/status/1882480643566878875" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
Other lawmakers also celebrated the news of the impending pardons. 
“Weaponizing the DOJ against pro-life protestors exercising their First Amendment rights was wrong,” West Virginia Rep. Riley Moore <a href="https://x.com/RepRileyMoore/status/1882473829517377850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Great news as the March for Life comes to Washington tomorrow!!”
Over the past few days, Republicans have urged Trump, who previously spoke out against the arrests of the pro-lifers, to issue the pardons. 
On Thursday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) <a href="https://x.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1882478265928982656" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a> the plight of several of the pro-lifers currency imprisoned from the Senate floor. 
&#8220;This is a grotesque assault on the principles of this country. That is why I have urged President Donald Trump to pardon all of these pro-life prisoners unjustly persecuted&#8230;by the corrupt Biden Administration, and I do mean corrupt,” Hawley said. 
Hawley specifically mentioned multiple pro-life activists currently in prison, like Bevelyn Williams (41 months) and Lauren Handy (57 months), and those facing prison like 89-year-old Eva Edl. Edl, who survived a World War II-era Yugoslavian concentration camp, faces 10 years in prison over a conviction in Detroit over a peaceful pro-life protest. 
“From a man who used his power illegitimately to pardon his own family, to pardon his own son, to excuse his own kin of wrongful, willful illegalities, protected drug lords, and killers, and murderers, and kingpins, and yet sent concentration camp survivors to prison because they spoke up for life, it does not get morally worse than that,” Hawley said of Biden. 
“President Trump can turn the chapter on this dark period of our history. He can right the wrongs that this last administration perpetrated,” he added. “He can begin to restore the requirements that the conscience of our country puts in front of us.&#8221;
Citing reporting of their trial from The Daily Wire, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) <a href="https://x.com/leif_lemahieu/status/1882486514845962535" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent</a> a letter to Trump on Thursday urging him to pardon six pro-lifers convicted in Nashville last year, including one currently in prison and one set to go to prison.
Trump is expected to issue the pardons in a matter of days.
Mary Margaret Olohan contributed to this report.

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Texas Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> (R) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would repeal a Clinton-era law that was used by the Biden administration to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/63-year-old-pro-life-grandpa-reports-to-notorious-federal-prison-after-biden-harris-prosecution#:~:text=—%20Exclusive-,Pro%2DLife%20Grandpa%20Reports%20To%20Notorious%20Federal%20Prison%20After%20Biden,conviction%20on%20FACE%20Act%20charges.&amp;text=Credit%3A%20Daily%20Wire." target="_blank" rel="noopener">imprison pro-life activists</a> across the country.
Roy’s <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Bill-Text-Roy_FACE-ACT-REPEAL_119th.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>, first reported by Fox News, would repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law that has been disproportionately used against pro-lifers despite guaranteeing equal protection to churches and pregnancy centers. Under President Joe Biden, pro-life activists across the country were sentenced to prison for their convictions over peaceful protests.
“Americans just spent the last four years being targeted by a weaponized justice system.  The FACE Act was one of the primary weapons of abuse — being used to politically target, arrest, and jail pro-life Americans for speaking out and standing up for life,” Roy <a href="https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-reintroduces-legislation-repeal-face-act">said</a>. “While President Trump and his team are already fast at work reversing the damage of the J6 political prosecutions and persecutions through pardons and commutations, I am hopeful those targeted under the FACE Act will be given similar relief.”
The Biden administration successfully prosecuted dozens of pro-life activists under FACE, pairing it with a Reconstruction-era felony conspiracy charge that came with the possibility of over a decade in federal prison. As a result, activists were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-21-pro-life-defendants-targeted-by-biden-doj-ask-trump-to-pardon-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> in Tennessee, New York, and Washington, D.C., to years in prison over their convictions.
In Nashville, Calvin Zastrow was sentenced to six months in prison last year for his participation in a peaceful sit-in outside of a Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, abortion facility where participants sang hymns, prayed, and urged women not to get abortions.
In another case, Lauren Handy was <a href="https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/news/peaceful-pro-life-advocate-lauren-handy-faces-miscarriage-of-justice-sentenced-to-57-months-in-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">given</a> 57 months in prison for her participation after she helped stage a sit-in at the D.C.-based Washington Surgi-Clinic late-term abortion facility. She is currently serving her sentence in Tallahassee and won’t be free until July 2027.
When passed in 1994, the FACE Act was supposed to protect both churches and clinics, but the law has almost exclusively been used to prosecute pro-lifers. Data obtained by Roy shows that 97% of FACE Act cases brought by the Justice Department have been against pro-life Americans.
“Now that we have a Republican trifecta in the House, Senate, and White House, Congress should move quickly to repeal this law and ensure that no future president can weaponize it against pro-lifers ever again,” Roy said. “No more excuses, let&#8217;s get it done.”
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At least 20 Republicans in the House are backing the measure and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is expected to introduce similar legislation in the Senate.
Twenty-one pro-life Americans convicted under Biden have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-21-pro-life-defendants-targeted-by-biden-doj-ask-trump-to-pardon-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">formally requested</a> President Donald Trump to pardon them, saying that the government was weaponized against them. The Thomas More Society, which requested the pardon, is also pursuing a repeal of the FACE Act through the federal courts.
Trump has criticized the Biden Justice Department for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/defend-our-country-imprisoned-pro-life-activists-urge-americans-to-vote-against-kamala" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targeting pro-lifers </a>on “outrageous charges,” promising on the campaign trail to “rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who’s unjustly victimized by the Biden regime…so we can get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong.”

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On Thursday, the Republican-led <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> again passed legislation threatening to impose sanctions on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/international-criminal-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Criminal Court</a> (ICC) after the organization issued arrest warrants against Israeli leaders last year.
Forty-five Democrats <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/20257" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> 198 Republicans in voting for the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act. The bill once more heads to the Senate; with the GOP in control, the legislation may actually succeed.
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23/text?s=1&amp;r=1&amp;q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Illegitimate+Court+Counteraction+Act%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> would &#8220;impose sanctions with respect to the International Criminal Court engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies.&#8221;
Penalties listed in the bill would have the president implement restrictions on transactions of property and interests within the U.S., as well as visas, admission, or parole for anyone linked to offending ICC actions.
Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Brian Mast (R-FL) first <a href="https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-roy-and-mast-demand-sanctions-icc-officials-going-after-us-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unveiled</a> the sanctions bill last May, citing reports indicating the ICC was prepared to issue arrest warrants against Israeli officials in response to the war in the Gaza Strip.
The ICC later did <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/icc-blasted-over-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-gallant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issue</a> arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant — as well as Hamas terror group officials — a move that got bipartisan criticism in the U.S.
Roy and Mast, who is now chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, <a href="https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-chairman-mast-reintroduce-bill-protect-israel-illegitimate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> earlier this week that the House rules package for the nascent 119th Congress set the stage for their legislation to get another vote.
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&#8220;The House will not tolerate rogue actors who circumvent international law to attack Israel and threaten America. We won’t do it,&#8221; House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://x.com/Edgar_A_Barrios/status/1876657254218465309" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a press briefing on Capitol Hill this week.
Johnson also noted he expects the Senate, now led by Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), to vote on the bill. The Democrat-led Senate in the last Congress <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8282/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did not vote</a> on the legislation as President Joe Biden <a href="https://x.com/nicholaswu12/status/1797727903175807367" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opposed</a> it.
Roy <a href="https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-chairman-mast-reintroduce-bill-protect-israel-illegitimate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he has &#8220;full confidence&#8221; President-elect Donald Trump &#8220;will stand for Israel with the strength and moral clarity that Biden has sorely lacked,&#8221; adding the bill ensures the ICC won&#8217;t get a &#8220;free pass&#8221; to attack U.S. allies.
The House vote on Thursday was the second in this Congress in which a bipartisan group of lawmakers passed a bill. On Tuesday, 48 Democrats and 216 Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-again-passes-laken-riley-act-159-dems-vote-against-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent</a> the &#8220;Laken Riley Act&#8221; to the Senate.

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> (R-TX) demanded answers from the University of Texas on Wednesday over a $50,000 grant it provided to Planned Parenthood to research a sex education program, a letter first shared with The Daily Wire shows. 
Roy’s <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/1.8.25-Rep-Roy-Letter-UT-Dean-Dr.-Allan-Cole-3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> was related to a <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_TP2AH000095_7521/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sub-award</a> of $49,458 given to Planned Parenthood of Illinois by the University of Texas Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work. The university provided the grant out of a $2 million award from the Department of Health and Human Services it was granted for the purpose of evaluating THRIVE, a sexual education and health organization. 
“Planned Parenthood of Illinois is a radical entity and the University of Texas’ association with it violates the conscience of millions of Texans,” Roy wrote to Dean of the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, Allan Cole.
The University of Texas has so far received $526,145 of the promised money from the federal government and has partnered with teams in Illinois, Kansas, and Colorado to evaluate THRIVE.
THRIVE <a href="https://tfyhi.socialwork.utexas.edu/thrive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that it provides “inclusive, trauma-informed sex education to youth” and that its curriculum is “designed to meet the specific needs and concerns of teens and young adults in foster care.”
Roy said that the university’s partnership with Planned Parenthood of Illinois was unacceptable, pointing to the organization&#8217;s <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-illinois/patient-resources/gender-affirming-hormone-therapy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts</a> of providing “gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) to transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive folks&#8221; as young as 16 years old. 
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“Considering that the University of Texas is second in the nation in federal research expenditures among public higher education systems, it is essential that we understand why federal grant recipients are entering into partnerships with abortion and so-called &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217;— providing organizations and under what circumstances,&#8221; Roy wrote. 
Roy asked that Cole provide documentation on the award and the “rationale” for why Planned Parenthood was chosen. He also asked if the University of Texas had entered into any other funding agreements with any abortion providers. 
The Republican lawmaker also asked whether the sub-award was in accordance with Texas law, which stipulates that public money cannot go toward transgender procedures on children.

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A Christian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-pro-lifer-facing-over-a-decade-in-prison-says-hes-ready-to-go-head-to-head-with-biden-admin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-life father</a> of 11 described before Congress on Wednesday the armed FBI raid on his home in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> after the Biden administration brought charges against him over a peaceful pro-life protest.
Paul Vaughn, of Centerville, Tennessee, <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/revisiting-implications-face-act-part-ii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> before the House Judiciary Committee on the Constitution and Limited Government on Wednesday to speak about his experience being prosecuted by the Justice Department under the FACE Act. The FACE Act is a Clinton-era law that was supposedly to protect both abortion facilities and churches from violence. In practice, the law has been used by the Biden administration to prosecute peaceful pro-life activists across the country.
The FBI arrested Vaughn on October 5, 2022, after he was involved in a peaceful protest at the Carafem abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, in March 2021, where protesters prayed and sang Christian hymns. Vaughn was charged with violating the FACE Act and engaging in a conspiracy against rights, a Reconstruction-era charge meant to crack down on violence by the Ku Klux Klan.
“My house was assaulted, my wife and children were terrorized, and I was kidnapped at gunpoint by four armed men,” Vaughn told lawmakers of the arrest. “I had just sent three of my children to the car so I could take them to school when the house began to shake from a loud banging near the front door. I heard men shouting from my front porch, ‘Open up! FBI!’”
Vaughn said that he saw two unmarked SUVs with flashing lights outside his home and men with automatic rifles and a pistol aimed at his door.
“I opened the curtains on my front door to find three men with guns trained on the front door,” he said, adding that the federal agents did not identify themselves.
“I later learned at the same time three of my children, ages 12, 14, and 18, were being detained in the side yard on the edge of the woods by a fourth armed man. I was taken without the presentation of a warrant or identification when requested. Make no mistake: this was an armed conflict and I was unarmed. Lethal force was abused to abridge my God-given and constitutionally secured rights.”
Vaughn said that the FACE Act was passed as a tool to “stifle free speech and abuse the rights of Christian conservatives.” Data <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-doj-seeks-jail-time-for-pro-lifers-convicted-over-peaceful-protest">show</a> that 97% of all prosecutions of the FACE Act since its inception have been against pro-lifers. Under Biden, the Justice Department has brought 24 FACE Act cases with all but two coming against pro-life activists.
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“The FACE Act was ostensibly passed because of violence. But as my family knows very well, all it did was give violence the cover of law and place it in the hands of the government,” Vaughn said.
Paired with the felony conspiracy charge, the activists have faced over a decade in prison and hundreds of thousands in fines. Multiple pro-lifers are currently serving prison sentences, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-lifer-spending-thanksgiving-in-prison-grateful-for-opportunity-a-doj-sponsored-mission-trip" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cal Zastrow</a>, one of Vaughn’s co-defendants in Tennessee.
Vaughn, who was convicted in January, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-denies-biden-admin-attempt-to-lock-up-peaceful-pro-life-protester" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> over the summer to three years of supervised release and has been prohibited from leaving the Middle District of Tennessee. He was given a special exception to travel to D.C. for the hearing.
Other testimony during the hearing came from Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer Erin Hawley and Thomas More Society lawyer Steve Crampton, who has served as lawyer for many of the pro-life defendants prosecuted under Biden.
The hearing was led by Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Dan Bishop (R-NC). Roy has consistently called for the FACE Act to be repealed and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-chip-roy-demands-fbi-doj-retain-records-of-pro-life-prosecutions-as-biden-leaves-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> that the Justice Department keep its records of the pro-life prosecutions.

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Texas Congressman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> demanded Thursday that the FBI and Justice Department preserve all records of its prosecutions of peaceful pro-life protesters across the country.
Roy said in a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/2024-12-05-Roy-Biggs-to-Garland-Wray-re-FACE-Act-follow-up.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland that lawmakers had “serious questions” about the Biden administration’s “weaponization” of the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that made it a federal crime to block the entrance of an abortion facility. Thursday’s letter, first shared with The Daily Wire, comes after the FBI ignored a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chip-roy-demands-biden-harris-admin-preserve-records-of-peaceful-pro-lifers-prosecutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar request</a> from Roy in October. 
Roy, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, said that the need to keep records was “imperative” with the outgoing Biden administration and incoming Trump administration. The letter was also signed by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Surveillance. 
“Congress has a sacred duty to preserve the rights of the American people, including the First Amendment, against any overreach by the Executive Branch,” Roy and Biggs wrote. “As we examine how to best protect Americans’ fundamental freedoms, the Subcommittees must first understand how the DOJ and FBI enforce the FACE Act.”
As written, the FACE Act is meant to protect both churches and crisis pregnancy centers. However, the Biden administration has disproportionately used it to go after pro-lifers despite an increase in targeting of pregnancy centers after Roe v. Wade was overturned. 
“However, since January 2021, the Civil Rights Division has brought a total of 24 FACE Act cases against 55 defendants, with only two of these cases — consisting of five defendants — concerning attacks on pregnancy resource centers,” Roy wrote. “You should construe this preservation notice as an instruction to take all reasonable steps to prevent the destruction or alteration, whether intentionally or negligently, of all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that are or may be responsive to this congressional inquiry.” 
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Pro-lifers are imprisoned across the country, including in Washington, D.C.. and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-lifer-spending-thanksgiving-in-prison-grateful-for-opportunity-a-doj-sponsored-mission-trip" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois</a>, after they were successfully prosecuted by the Biden administration under the FACE Act. 
During his time in Congress, Roy has consistently pushed for the FACE Act to be repealed and has introduced legislation to end the law. Data <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-doj-seeks-jail-time-for-pro-lifers-convicted-over-peaceful-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> that 97% of all prosecutions of the FACE Act since its inception have been against pro-lifers.

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Texas Congressman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chip-roy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chip Roy</a> (R) demanded Thursday that the FBI and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice Department</a> preserve all records of its prosecution of peaceful pro-life protesters under the FACE Act. 
In a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/10/2024-10-10-Roy-to-Wray-Garland-re-FACE-Act-prosecution-preservation.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> first shared with The Daily Wire, Roy called on FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland to take steps to keep all documentation of their Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) cases. The FACE Act is a Clinton-era law that makes it a federal crime to physically obstruct the entrance to an abortion facility. 
Roy, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, has long called for the FACE Act to be repealed because of its disproportionate use against pro-lifers. He told Biden administration officials that he remained &#8220;concerned with the Biden-Harris Administration’s continued weaponization of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act against pro-life Americans.”
“As the Subcommittee continues to conduct oversight over the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) enforcement of the FACE Act, serious questions remain about the disparity in prosecutions between Americans supporting life and the violent attacks on pregnancy resource centers that occurred in the wake of the leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” Roy wrote. 
Data <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/30/joe-biden-department-justice-doj-face-act-pro-life-conspiracy-against-rights/">shows that</a> 97% of all FACE prosecutions since the law&#8217;s inception have been against pro-lifers, even though the law was passed to protect churches and pregnancy centers.
“Congress has a sacred duty to preserve the rights of the American people, including the First Amendment, against any overreach by the executive branch,&#8221; Roy said. &#8220;As we examine how to best protect Americans’ fundamental freedoms, the Subcommittee must first understand how the DOJ and FBI use the FACE Act.&#8221;
Peaceful pro-life protesters across the country, from Tennessee to Washington, D.C., have received prison time in FACE Act cases. Meanwhile, a growing number of crisis pregnancy centers have been attacked in the wake of the Supreme Court&#8217;s overturning of Roe v. Wade. At least 94 centers have been vandalized since the draft of the decision to overturn Roe leaked in May 2022. 
Roy said that the FBI and Justice Department should take steps to retain all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information, from past, present, and future prosecutions. 
The Biden-Harris administration has frequently paired FACE Act prosecutions with conspiracy against rights charges, a Reconstruction-era measure that was designed to crack down on the Ku Klux Klan. A conviction on the conspiracy charge could carry a penalty of over 11 years in prison and hundreds of thousands in fines.
Efforts to have the FACE Act struck down are underway. The Thomas More Society has filed several appeals to convictions of pro-lifers that are currently making their way through the courts.
“FACE always was about protecting one thing and that was abortion,” Thomas More Society lawyer Steve  Crampton said last month. “Since the Dobbs decision and the overturn of Roe, abortion is no longer recognized as a federally protected right. So FACE is an act without really a purpose.”

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