On Thursday, the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee announced that it received bombshell evidence that suggested Pfizer executives pushed to delay full testing for their company&#8217;s COVID vaccine until after the 2020 election.
British drugmaker GSK informed the panel that Philip Dormitzer, a former Pfizer executive who became a senior scientist at GSK, told colleagues at GSK that &#8220;in late 2020, the three most senior people in Pfizer R&amp;D were involved in a decision to deliberately slow down clinical testing so that it would not be complete prior to the results of the presidential election that year.&#8221;
The Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), said that it had sought information from GSK after The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/pfizer-covid-vaccine-2020-election-probe-2f3ec247" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in March that U.S. prosecutors were looking into a tip from the company that came in &#8220;soon&#8221; after President Donald Trump won a second term in 2024.
The Journal noted that Trump, who lost to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential contest, &#8220;for years has claimed that Pfizer sat on the positive results of clinical trials, which could have reflected well on his management of the pandemic and reassured voters as they headed to the polls. There has never been evidence to support the accusation, and the development of the Covid vaccines is widely viewed as a medical miracle, coming faster than any other vaccine in history.&#8221;
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:rotating_light: HUGE :rotating_light:
New Information Suggests Senior Pfizer Executives Conspired to Delay COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Testing to Influence 2020 Election.
One exec was so scared about this being investigated that he asked to be relocated to Canada!
MASSIVE SCANDAL uncovered by <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jim_Jordan</a>. <a href="https://t.co/pZKLAz1Wmx">pic.twitter.com/pZKLAz1Wmx</a>
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As relayed by the Judiciary Committee, GSK responded to the panel&#8217;s inquiry in mid-April. In another part of the reply given to congressional investigators, GSK said Dormitzer had requested a transfer over concerns about what the new Trump administration might do to him.
&#8220;In November 2024, shortly after the election, Dr. Dormitzer approached a representative from the GSK human resources team to speak about a potential relocation abroad. As the human resources representative recalls, in their meeting, Dr. Dormitzer was visibly upset; he requested that he be relocated to Canada due to concerns that he could be investigated by the incoming Trump Administration over his role in developing Pfizer&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine,&#8221; GSK said. &#8220;According to the human resources representative, when asked what prompted his request, Dr. Dormitzer made a comment to the effect of: &#8216;Let&#8217;s just say it wasn&#8217;t a coincidence, the timing of the vaccine.'&#8221;
The Journal reported in March that GSK and Pfizer, who are rivals in the pharmaceutical industry, have sued each other over patent rights tied to vaccines.
Dormitzer, who has since left GSK, provided a statement to the newspaper.
&#8220;My Pfizer colleagues and I did everything we could to get the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization at the very first possible moment,&#8221; Dormitzer said. &#8220;Any other interpretation of my comments about the pace of the vaccine’s development would be incorrect.&#8221;
The House panel sent a <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-05-15-jdj-to-dormitzer-re-vaccine-delay.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Dormitzer requesting documents and a transcribed interview by May 29. Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla was the recipient of another <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-05-15-jdj-to-pfizer-re-vaccine-delay.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> that sought records by the same date.
In response to a request for comment, a Pfizer representative told The Daily Wire that the company received the letter asking about the allegations in the Wall Street Journal report and &#8220;will respond directly&#8221; to the House Judiciary Committee.
Pfizer also provided a statement that said: &#8220;The COVID-19 vaccine development process was driven by science and guided by the U.S. FDA back in 2020. We have consistently and transparently reiterated the facts and the timeline of the tireless work of scientists, regulators, and thousands of clinical trial volunteers who made the vaccine possible. Theories to the contrary are simply untrue and being manufactured.&#8221;
The Judiciary Committee emphasized that it is &#8220;unclear which Pfizer R&amp;D employees were involved with Dr. Dormitzer in the decision to delay the clinical testing,&#8221; but did note that he &#8220;represented to GSK that Pfizer&#8217;s CEO was not aware of the delay.&#8221;
A GSK spokesperson declined to comment.
Jordan (R-OH), a close ally to Trump, <a href="https://x.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1923046662139785572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X in response to the information obtained by his panel: &#8220;Did Pfizer executives conspire to delay COVID-19 vaccine testing to influence the 2020 election? Based on our oversight, it sure looks like it.&#8221;

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Pfizer May Have Plotted To Delay COVID Vaccine Until After 2020 Election, Congress Says

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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is pushing appropriators to leverage upcoming funding legislation to put restraints on federal judges who have issued nationwide injunctions against President Donald Trump&#8217;s policies.
With a <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-03-31-jdj-to-cole-joyce-approps%29-re-judicial-branch-appropriations.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> dated March 31, Jordan implored leaders on the Committee on Appropriations to use &#8220;Congress&#8217;s power of the purse&#8221; to crack down on what he described as the &#8220;abuse of nationwide injunctive authority&#8221; during the first 60 days of Trump&#8217;s second term and ensure &#8220;the federal judiciary can continue to operate effectively and responsibly with respect to its growing civil and criminal dockets.&#8221;
Federal judges have issued more than a dozen injunctions during the first couple months of the new Trump administration, including orders hindering the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congressman-introduces-articles-of-impeachment-against-judge-blocking-trump-deportations?topStoryPosition=undefined" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocking</a> the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, as legal battles focused on federal government actions play out in court.
Jordan offered a number of &#8220;steps&#8221; that he argued &#8220;would reinforce the proper limits of judicial power and ensure that taxpayer resources support a judiciary that respects its constitutional role.&#8221;
He said: &#8220;In particular, we urge you to consider language prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars and federal resources to issue or enforce these overbroad injunctions beyond the specific parties in front of an issuing court in a particular case. Additionally, we ask that you consider including language to limit appropriated funds related to the issuance and enforcement of nationwide injunctions, including using court resources to compel compliance, impose fines, or conduct contempt proceedings related to such injunctions.&#8221;
Jordan also noted that his committee has &#8220;developed legislative reforms within our jurisdiction to address this misuse of judicial authority and to restore balance between the branches of the federal government.&#8221;
While some Republicans are rallying for impeaching judges or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/proposal-remove-judge-blocked-trump-deportation-flights-without-impeachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">otherwise</a> trying to remove them, the House is expected to vote this week on the &#8220;<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1526/text">No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025</a>,&#8221; legislation that seeks to amend U.S. Code to prevent district courts from issuing injunctions unless the order applies only to the parties of the particular case at hand.
Before <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/markups/markup-hr-1789-hr-1526-hr-1702-and-hr-1605" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passing</a> out the House Judiciary Committee last month, the bill was <a href="https://issa.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/issa.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/hr1526-updated-norra.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amended</a> to allow for an injunction from a panel of three randomly selected judges when the overarching case is brought by two or more states in multiple circuits and make room for appealing to the Supreme Court.
The House Judiciary Committee held on Tuesday a hearing titled &#8220;Judicial Overreach and Constitutional Limits on the Federal Courts&#8221; in which former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) delivered an opening statement that <a href="https://x.com/DailySignal/status/1907115746355765452" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a>: &#8220;There is clearly a potential constitutional crisis involving the judicial branch&#8217;s effort to fully override the legislative and executive branches.&#8221;
In a post on X, House Judiciary Democrats <a href="https://x.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1907113454676140216" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Trump keeps losing in court, so MAGA Republicans want to punish the judges instead of following the law.&#8221;

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Jim Jordan Seeks To Defund Nationwide Injunctions, Stop Anti-Trump ‘Abuse’

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On Monday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said he sees promising signs for a bill that aims to limit federal judges issuing nationwide injunctions after more than a dozen orders blocking various elements of President Donald Trump&#8217;s second-term agenda, spurring criticism from Republican lawmakers who argue the rulings are overtly political.
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1526/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;No Rogue Rulings Act,&#8221;</a> legislation that advanced out of Jordan&#8217;s panel with a vote earlier this month, seeks to &#8220;limit the authority of district courts to provide injunctive relief, and for other purposes.&#8221; It was <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/markups/markup-hr-1789-hr-1526-hr-1702-and-hr-1605" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amended</a> to allow for an injunction from a panel of three randomly-selected judges when the overarching case is brought by two or more states in multiple circuits and make room for appealing to the Supreme Court.
Jordan <a href="https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1904189002837606772" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has &#8220;indicated&#8221; that he would like to get the bill to the floor next week. &#8220;Hopefully we can get that bill passed next week on the House floor, move it to the Senate, and hopefully get it to the president&#8217;s desk,&#8221; he added.
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Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jim_Jordan</a> says Congress is preparing to pass legislation that will limit nation-wide injunctions from &quot;totally political&quot; far left judges who are attempting to undermine <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>&#39;s authority <a href="https://t.co/a4vVUT4Fmr">pic.twitter.com/a4vVUT4Fmr</a>
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An on-screen graphic depicted Harvard Law Review data, showing 15 injunctions have stopped presidential policies during Trump&#8217;s second term, which is a little more than two months old. That beats the 14 injunctions during the Biden administration, 12 during the Obama administration, and 6 during the George W. Bush administration. Sixty-four injunctions were levied against presidential policies from Trump&#8217;s first-term administration.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the lawmaker who introduced the the &#8220;No Rogue Rulings Act,&#8221; <a href="https://issa.house.gov/media/press-releases/issa-legislation-stop-rogue-federal-judges-passes-house-judiciary-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release: &#8220;We have a major malfunction in one part of our federal judiciary: Judges who abuse their power with nationwide injunctions that target President Trump to stop him from advancing the policies the American people elected him to carry out. As of today, these rogue rulings are put on notice and soon should come to an end.&#8221;
Democrats lack majorities in Congress, but they have <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jamie-raskin-face-the-nation-transcript-02-16-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> the judge&#8217;s orders as being a saving grace for their side. During a recent &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; interview on CBS, House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jamie-raskin-face-the-nation-transcript-02-16-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">touted</a> the injunctions and said, &#8220;we&#8217;re winning across the board.&#8221;
House Republicans have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/impeachathon-ensnares-growing-number-of-get-trump-judges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unveiled</a> articles of impeachment against several judges they feel are ruling against the Trump administration out of political animus. Trump himself <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114183576937425149" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voiced</a> support for impeaching these judges. Last week, Jordan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordan-hearings-judges-injunctions-against-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he would not rule out proceeding with impeachment, however he and other House GOP leaders have not made any commitments.
Jordan also said on Monday there will be hearings focused on federal judges issuing the injunctions. Zeroing in on James Boasberg, an Obama-appointed judge who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congressman-introduces-articles-of-impeachment-against-judge-blocking-trump-deportations?topStoryPosition=undefined" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the chairman declared that &#8220;it starts to look like this is getting totally political&#8221; when his past involvement in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-obama-appointed-judge-trying-to-stop-trump-from-deporting-criminal-illegals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russiagate</a> scandal is also taken into consideration.
On another Fox News <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uVJCRXMGvQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program</a>, &#8220;Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy,&#8221; Johnson called out &#8220;activist judges&#8221; issuing injunctions against the Trump administration. &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to working with our good friend Chairman Jim Jordan in the House Judiciary Committee to sort through this and find out what the remedies are to figure out how we can bring correction here because I think it&#8217;s important for our system of justice,&#8221; he added.
There is movement in the Senate to take legislative action, too, with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) <a href="https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/1904223820237439247" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vowing</a> to unveil a bill of his own &#8220;to STOP liberal judges’ serial abuse of their power by BANNING nationwide injunctions.&#8221;

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Jim Jordan Says House May Soon Pass Bill Targeting Nationwide Injunctions

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The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the slew of federal judges who have issued rulings that halted elements of President Donald Trump&#8217;s second-term agenda, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said on Wednesday.
Jordan made the announcement during an interview with CNN&#8217;s Kasie Hunt after James Boasberg, an Obama-appointed judge, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congressman-introduces-articles-of-impeachment-against-judge-blocking-trump-deportations?topStoryPosition=undefined" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport violent criminal illegal migrants.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to hold hearings on this entire issue, the 15 injunctions that have been done in an eight-week timeframe. Judge Boasberg&#8217;s decision &#8230; hearing from experts, talking about this whole kind of body of law, this whole situation,&#8221; he said.
Over the past few weeks, some House Republicans have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/impeachathon-ensnares-growing-number-of-get-trump-judges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unveiled</a> articles of impeachment against Boasberg and other judges they feel are delivering rulings that are unfavorable to the Trump administration out of political animus.
Trump himself took aim at Boasberg in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114183576937425149" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Truth Social on Tuesday, calling him a “troublemaker and agitator” who “like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!”
Jordan would not go as far as to reveal whether he would hold impeachment hearings, but the chairman did say, &#8220;We&#8217;re not ruling out anything.&#8221; He also stressed that &#8220;it&#8217;s important for us to gather information — get input on this issue.&#8221;
The House and Senate are currently led by Republicans, though by slim margins. While a simple majority to impeach could be achieved along party lines in the House, a bipartisan group of 67 senators would be needed for removal.
On Tuesday, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chief-justice-john-roberts-speaks-out-against-trump-backed-push-to-impeach-judges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a rare statement pushing back on the GOP impeachment push and declaring the &#8220;normal appellate review process exists&#8221; for the purpose of fighting a judicial decision.
While Jordan acknowledged that he expects the White House to proceed with the appellate process, he emphasized that Boasberg&#8217;s history with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-obama-appointed-judge-trying-to-stop-trump-from-deporting-criminal-illegals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russiagate</a> and &#8220;the pace&#8221; of the injunctions has become a &#8220;concern&#8221; for Republicans.
Jordan also touted a bill the Judiciary Committee recently <a href="https://issa.house.gov/media/press-releases/issa-legislation-stop-rogue-federal-judges-passes-house-judiciary-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advanced</a> that seeks to restrain the number of injunctions being levied by federal judges and said there may be &#8220;another legislative remedy&#8221; that lawmakers may want to examine, too.
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Jordan Plans Hearings On Flood Of Judges’ Injunctions Against Trump Agenda

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, defended Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s efforts to scrap &#8220;stupid&#8221; government spending.
Jordan made the remarks in an interview with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morning Wire</a> as the Left ramps up its attacks on President Donald Trump and Musk&#8217;s influence on the Trump administration. After Trump put Musk to work last month, DOGE found government waste totaling billions of dollars. In his interview with Morning Wire, Jordan slammed Democrats for raging against Musk&#8217;s &#8220;common sense&#8221; actions.
&#8220;I think the American people view it this way: they&#8217;re saying like, &#8216;Wow, we were spending our tax money on these stupid things?&#8217; And of course, the Left, instead of attacking the stupid things and stopping the stupid things that, you know, taxpayer money is being spent on, they attack the guy who&#8217;s exposing it,&#8221; Jordan told Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.
&#8220;I think the country, deep down, appreciates [that] President Trump said he was going to do this,&#8221; the Republican added.
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Jordan said the Left was busy defending &#8220;career bureaucrats&#8221; after &#8220;77 million people said, we want President Trump making these decisions.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not the career experts — the Dr. Faucis of the world — who run the country. It&#8217;s the people who put their names on a ballot and get elected. They make the decisions,&#8221; Jordan added.
Last week, Democratic leaders <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/democrats-protest-elon-musk-treasury-washington" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined protesters</a> in Washington, D.C., to denounce what they described as Musk&#8217;s &#8220;hostile takeover&#8221; of government financial systems. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told the crowd, “Every American’s information is at risk. What does Elon Musk do with everything he touches? He makes money!”
A federal judge in New York temporarily blocked DOGE from accessing Treasury Department data after 19 state attorneys general sued to stop DOGE&#8217;s access to sensitive data. Despite the challenge to DOGE&#8217;s work, Republicans remain supportive of Musk taking a flamethrower to government spending.
“It’s a very aggressive agenda that was promised to the voters. Remember, [Trump is] delivering on campaign promises right now,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doge-finds-shocking-government-expenditures-not-approved-by-congress-mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Monday. “We are going to be codifying a lot of these changes, and what they’ve uncovered is, frankly, shocking. There are a lot of expenditures of the federal government that Congress has not been aware of, in spite of our best efforts to do oversight, some of this has been hidden.”
Jordan added that Trump &#8220;has said he&#8217;s going to use Elon Musk and his team, and God bless them for what they&#8217;re exposing and showing. And the platform they have to really get that out there for the American people to see and understand, I think it&#8217;s a good thing.&#8221;
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President Trump ran on a platform of upholding the Constitution and defending the rights of all Americans. Seventy-seven million Americans elected him to depoliticize the Department of Justice and return the rule of law to our country.
President Trump is keeping his promise to the American people.
He has put together a top-notch team to lead the Justice Department. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was confirmed last week, is an experienced and dedicated public servant with an outstanding record. Kash Patel is on track for confirmation as FBI Director as soon as this week and he will bring much-needed reforms to our nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency.
Todd Blanche, President Trump’s nominee to be the Deputy Attorney General, is another critical piece to restoring trust and accountability in the Justice Department. He must be confirmed quickly.
First and foremost, Todd is a decent and honorable man. He’s not a product of the Washington elite, the Ivy League, or the Ivory Tower. Todd achieved success the old-fashioned way — through grit, hard work, and determination.
Todd started with the Justice Department as a paralegal while putting himself through law school at night. He eventually became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. Practicing before perhaps the country’s most demanding court, Todd helped to enforce federal laws and prosecute violent criminals.
After many years with the Justice Department, Todd entered private practice, defending clients in the same courts where he once argued as a prosecutor. He handled some of the most high-profile and sensitive cases in New York. And he did it like everything else in his career, with discipline, passion, and conviction.
Todd Blanche is a uniquely qualified nominee to help lead the Justice Department at this pivotal moment in its history.
He knows the Department inside and out. Todd has experienced it as a junior paralegal juggling the demands of a young family and a legal education. He’s experienced it as a prosecutor representing “We, the People” against violent criminals and dangerous felons. And he’s seen it from the outside as a litigator defending clients against federal prosecutions. Todd understands the rule of law because he’s been on both sides of the courtroom. He knows the demands on the prosecution to do justice and he knows the challenges of the defense to zealously represent a client. He knows how — when our legal system works as designed — justice is done.
Importantly, Todd also has seen how our system of justice can be weaponized and misused for partisan purposes. He’s defended President Trump against politicized prosecutions at the state level and from the Biden-Harris Administration. He knows firsthand how politically ambitious prosecutors can abuse the powers of their office to target and harass political opponents. Todd’s been successful in fighting for President Trump and defending the fundamental American principle of impartial justice for all.
Todd Blanche is a credit to our country and exactly the kind of humble public servant we need now more than ever. He will make a great Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
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Congressman Jim Jordan represents Ohio’s 4th District and serves as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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It’s one thing to hear the alarm go off … and another to roll out of bed and hit the ground running. After several years of increasing revelations about the growing complex of private enterprises, non-profit organizations, and governments — federal and state — that have been censoring Americans’ speech, it’s refreshing to see political leadership that throws back the covers and <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confronts the danger head-on</a>.
Our newly re-elected president, to his credit, seems clear-eyed on what we’re facing. “If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country — it’s as simple as that,” now President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNcLWKdyiOY&amp;t=403s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the nation</a> shortly after the November election. “If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple … like dominoes.”
Few people in the public eye have as much reason as the president to take seriously the blunt instrument of political censorship being wielded against all Americans by the <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Biden-WH-Censorship-Report-final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal government</a>, its <a href="https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2023/11/new-york-announces-it-will-take-citizen-surveillance-and-censorship-to-the-next-level/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blue state allies</a>, and their <a href="https://adflegal.org/article/free-speech-issue-our-generation-corporate-cancellations-threat-freedom/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">private enterprise proxies</a>. Even fewer are in so ideal a position to do something about that threat.
The mere fact that Trump is beginning his second term signals his remarkable personal triumph over the massive campaign of censorship hurled against him over the last 10 years. He was still serving his first term when he found himself removed from Facebook, invisible on Google, and locked out of what was then called Twitter.
“This censorship is unlawful, it’s unconstitutional, and it’s completely un-American,” he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4d6jiGEXWU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2021, announcing a class-action lawsuit against the three platforms. “We’re demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing, and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing, and canceling that you know so well.” Four years don’t seem to have assuaged his determination to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNcLWKdyiOY&amp;t=4s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lay an axe</a> to the roots of the problem.
He won’t be swinging his axe alone. Another key member of the incoming administration, Elon Musk, has already taken some major initiatives, buying Twitter and rebranding it as “X,” after <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60979656" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raising his own questions</a> about political censorship on major social media platforms.
And Rep. Jim Jordan’s congressional subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has released multiple reports—including <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/final-report-weaponization-federal-government" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one</a> last month detailing the Biden administration’s largely successful “monthslong campaign … to coerce large companies … to censor books, videos, posts, and other content online.” This campaign, the committee’s report concluded, “needlessly imposed harm and suffering on Americans across the country.”
Earlier this month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPhY5ggQK08" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> those findings, describing how Biden administration officials angrily and aggressively demanded that Facebook remove Covid-related content, “even things that were facts, or memes and humor. When we refused, we found ourselves under investigation by several agencies.” His was one of many social media platforms, he admitted, that buckled under the government’s pressure.
In fact, these revelations are only the tip of a very large iceberg. In recent years, an illegal Cold War against unwelcome messaging and messengers has targeted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNhGAWtzbTY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">schoolchildren</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qvt5IBRBQ8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">college students</a>, <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/ohio-school-district-coughs-450k-settle-free-speech-case-teacher?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teachers</a>, <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/families-doctors-affirm-counseling-based-biological-reality-effective?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">counselors</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3vyja7NKrM">artists</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZE6KKpbj1U&amp;t=2s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pregnancy care centers</a>, <a href="https://adfmedia.org/press-release/adf-court-church-speech-ban-must-go" target="_blank" rel="noopener">churches</a>, <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/de-banking-victim-steve-happ-indigenous-advance-ministries-bank-america-i-dont-want/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ministries</a>, and <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/babylon-bee-files-suit-against-humorless-california-censorship-laws/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped">humor websites</a> all over the country, intimidating ordinary Americans through everything from <a href="https://adflegal.org/article/educators-have-rights-too/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">job termination</a> to <a href="https://adflegal.org/support/debanking-video/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">de-banking</a>, and with threats of <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/virginia-photographer-now-free-government-coercion/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">costly fines</a> and even <a href="https://adflegal.org/client/brush-nib-studio/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jail time</a>.
But recognizing the threat — like hearing the alarm — isn’t enough. Someone has to rise to challenges posed by this Censorship Industrial Complex to cut Americans off from news, information, and viewpoints that some in positions of power and authority don’t want them to have.
Fighting this good fight is going to require significant and concentrated effort by the executive and legislative branches to root out the offenders — even within the federal government itself. All records evidencing governmental attempts to censor speech should be made public — after all, those records belong to the American people. The officials who acted to infringe rights of free speech must be held accountable. And each leader in every government agency must make one thing abundantly clear: state power may never be used to censor, limit, or diminish protected speech — it’s that simple.
Thankfully, the incoming administration seems intent on pursuing all these actions — and keenly aware of the stakes. “The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for America,” Trump recently said, “and for the survival of Western Civilization itself.”
So the president himself has sounded the alarm, most recently through his executive orders. Here’s hoping the rest of this administration won’t be caught napping.
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Philip A. Sechler is senior counsel and director of the Center for Free Speech at <a href="http://www.adflegal.org/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped">Alliance Defending Freedom</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ADFLegal">@ADFLegal</a>).
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Government Officials Who Engaged In Censorship Must Be Held Accountable

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A growing number of corporations are exiting a left-wing “climate cartel” amid pressure from congressional Republicans, The Daily Wire learned on Friday.
The committee has been investigating organizations like the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative and Climate Action 100+ which it says have worked together with corporations to push leftist ESG goals and decarbonization of the American economy. Earlier this month, NZAM paused its work after a flurry of high-profile companies, like BlackRock, left the company.
The exodus from NZAM also includes companies like AllianceBernstein, Northern Trust Asset Management, HASI, Muzinich and Co., Breckinridge Capital Advisors, Stonepeak, V-Square Quantitative Management, and SKY Harbor Capital Management, the committee told The Daily Wire.
Many of the companies, including Northern Trust Asset Management and SKY Harbor Capital Management, left after being contacted by the committee.
“More than 70 companies have left woke ESG organizations like NZAM and Climate Action 100+ since the Committee’s investigation started,” Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) told The Daily Wire. “This a huge win for freedom and American prosperity. All U.S. financial institutions should follow suit and abandon the climate cartel.”
At one point, NZAM, which says its goal is to push net zero greenhouse gas emission by 2050 or sooner, boasted its members controlled over $57 trillion in assets. The company has now suspended all activities following the departures.
BlackRock, which controls over $11 trillion in assets, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blackrock-exits-climate-activist-group-after-pressure-from-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left NZAM</a> on January 9, one day before a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-jim-jordan-demands-60-companies-provide-answers-on-climate-activism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deadline</a> given by the company by the Judiciary Committee to respond to questions about whether its investment policies were impacted by its involvement with climate groups.
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In a letter explaining its withdrawal, BlackRock executives admitted that the company&#8217;s involvement with NZAM “caused confusion regarding BlackRock’s practices and subjected us to legal inquiries from various public officials.”
“Our participation in NZAM didn’t impact the way we managed client portfolios,” the company said. “Therefore, our departure doesn’t change the way we develop products and solutions for clients or how we manage their portfolios.”
The Judiciary Committee has been investigating the cooperation between climate groups and corporations for the last two years and released a <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-06-11%20Climate%20Control%20-%20Exposing%20the%20Decarbonization%20Collusion%20in%20Environmental%2C%20Social%2C%20and%20Governance%20(ESG)%20Investing.pdf">report</a> called “Climate Control: Exposing The Decarbonization Collusion in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing,” in June.
Companies like BlackRock have also been under pressure at the state level. In November, 11 Republican attorneys general, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-ags-sue-blackrock-say-it-has-conspired-against-coal-production" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a lawsuit</a> in November against BlackRock over its involvement with groups like NZAM.

‘Win For Freedom’: House Republicans Celebrate Exodus Of Companies From ‘Climate Cartel’

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> Republicans are starting up a new panel to investigate events leading up to and after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a>, 2021, Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) revealed on Wednesday.
A new select subcommittee is being established under the House Judiciary Committee and will be chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who led the counter-probe into the U.S. Capitol breach and the Democrat-led January 6 Committee, leading to a report that demanded <a href="https://cha.house.gov/_cache/files/6/d/6dae7b82-7683-4f56-a177-ba98695e600d/145DD5A70E967DEEC1F511764D3E6FA1.final-interim-report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">further inquiry</a> into its leaders — Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) — for suspected wrongdoing related to data retention and witnesses.
&#8220;House Republicans are proud of our work so far in exposing the false narratives peddled by the politically motivated January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress, but there is still more work to be done,&#8221; Johnson said in a statement. &#8220;We are establishing this Select Subcommittee to continue our efforts to uncover the full truth that is owed to the American people. The composition and other details regarding the Select Subcommittee will be announced soon.&#8221;
The announcement comes after President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> issued a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-full-pardon-to-nearly-all-j6-defendants-could-be-released-from-prison-tonight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sweeping executive order</a> on Monday, hours into his second term, granting pardons to about 1,500 criminal defendants related to the January 6 Capitol riot. That move followed former President Joe Biden issuing preemptive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-issues-last-minute-pardons-for-fauci-mark-milley-and-jan-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardons</a> to members of the January 6 Committee right before he left office, including Thompson and Cheney, and others. Trump himself faced a criminal prosecutions tied to the 2020 election and January 6, but they faltered after the 2024 presidential contest.
&#8220;I am honored to be tasked with continuing the investigation into the events surrounding January 6, 2021, and the failures that led to the breach of the United States Capitol,&#8221; Loudermilk said in a statement. &#8220;What happened at the Capitol that day was the result of a series of intelligence, security, and leadership failures at multiple levels within numerous entities. I appreciate Speaker Johnson’s commitment to our work, and I am looking forward to working with Chairman Jim Jordan to continue to uncover all the facts and begin the arduous task of making needed reforms to ensure this level of security failure may never happen again.”
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In a statement of his own, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said &#8220;Loudermilk has been the leader in getting to the bottom of what the Democrat-led January 6 Committee failed to uncover, and we look forward to helping him bring all the facts to the American people.&#8221;
After receiving their pardons, Thompson and Cheney released a joint <a href="https://www.wlbt.com/2025/01/20/thomspon-cheney-release-statement-wake-presidential-pardon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> thanking Biden and lamenting how they were being subject to continued scrutiny.
&#8220;We express our gratitude to President Biden for recognizing that we and our families have been continuously targeted not only with harassment, lies, and threats of criminal violence but also with specific threats of criminal prosecution and imprisonment by members of the incoming administration, simply for doing our jobs and upholding our oath of office,&#8221; the pair said, adding, &#8220;We have been pardoned today not for breaking the law but for upholding it.&#8221;

House Republicans Launch New January 6 Panel

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Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee demanded Friday that over 60 companies provide answers on their involvement with leftist climate organizations, according to letters first shared with The Daily Wire. 
House Judiciary Chair <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told large companies, including BlackRock, State Street Global Advisors, and J.P. Morgan, to preserve all documents related to their involvement with the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and the Net Zero Asset Managers. They also asked whether their involvement with those organizations had any influence on their company policies and asset management. 
The lawmakers wrote that “the Committee has uncovered evidence that financial institutions are colluding with climate activists through initiatives like the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative to collectively adopt and impose left-wing environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related goals, which may violate U.S. antitrust law.”
“The Committee has obtained evidence that members of GFANZ and NZAM attempt to impose a ‘net-zero’ climate agenda on U.S. companies in their investment portfolios,” they added. 
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero describes itself as “a global coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the economy.&#8221; Net Zero Asset Managers, which says its signers have more than $57.5 trillion under management, is “an international group of asset managers committed, consistent with their fiduciary duty to their clients and beneficiaries, to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.”
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In the letter to J.P.Morgan Asset Management shared with The Daily Wire, the lawmakers ask if its membership in the organization has “altered its ‘stewardship and engagement strategy’ with its portfolio companies&#8221; and if it had taken any actions to push the companies it invests in toward net zero. 
The lawmakers also asked the companies if their involvement with both climate initiatives had impacted its voting policy, requesting an answer to its questions by January 10, 2025. 
“The Committee has reason to believe that J.P. MorganAsset Management may be in possession of documents and communications related to GFANZ and NZAM’s collusive activity that would inform potential legislative reforms,” the lawmakers wrote. “This letter serves as a formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials relating to the topics addressed in this letter.”
In June, the House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-take-aim-at-climate-cartel-pushing-decarbonization-of-american-industry">released</a> a report saying that there was a “climate cartel” working together to push companies to impose radical environmental goals and the decarbonization of American industry.

House Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing On Oversight Of FBI

EXCLUSIVE: Jordan, Massie Demand 60+ Companies Provide Answers On Climate Activism

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On Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, fired off a letter to the Biden Department of Justice demanding the Office of Professional Responsibility provide critical information about the operations of Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team’s efforts to prosecute Donald Trump.
Smith had charged Trump with trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election in one case and mishandling classified documents in another.
“The information that you have provided only reinforces our concerns that OPR acts more to protect Department prosecutors than to root out prosecutorial misconduct,” Jordan wrote to Jeffrey Ragsdale, the counsel for OPR. “While we appreciate you confirming an open investigation into Jack Smith&#8217;s prosecutors, we are concerned that your refusal to take prompt investigative steps will allow these attorneys to evade internal accountability by leaving the Department.”
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Jordan referred to a letter the Committee wrote in May in which they asked for “documents related to OPR&#8217;s investigations into allegations that Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team lied to a federal court, manipulated evidence seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during its raid of Mar-a-Lago, and improperly pressured a lawyer representing a defendant indicted by Smith.”
The Committee followed up with another letter in August regarding professional misconduct regarding another member of Smith&#8217;s team, J.P. Cooney. After receiving no response, the Committee asked Ragsdale to make himself available to the Committee in September and followed up with another request in October regarding all their requests.
On November 19, Ragsdale told the Committee that OPR had opened an investigation into Smith&#8217;s office in June 2023, but OPR did not conduct an “inquiry” or “investigation” into the allegations because it could “interfer[e] with” and “jeopardize” the prosecution, Jordan wrote.
“As you explained it, the Department&#8217;s policy would keep bad-actor attorneys in place to continue prosecutorial misconduct because of the administrative difficulty and resource constraints involved in switching attorneys,” Jordan wrote. “This excuse not only defies common sense, but it seems to violate the Department&#8217;s mission to ensure that justice is done in every case.”
After Trump was elected, Smith revealed that his team was “making moves to wind down the two criminal cases.&#8221;
“Smith then gave your office permission to investigate the allegations of attorney misconduct by Smith&#8217;s office. You stated that Smith only allowed the investigation to begin because it would now no longer ‘interfere with the Special Counsel&#8217;s investigation and prosecution,’” Jordan noted.
“It is absurd that OPR &#8211; the Department entity charged with upholding ethical conduct &#8211; would only examine allegations of prosecutorial misconduct after the subject of the allegations has approved the inquiry,” he declared.
“Your continued failure to cooperate with our oversight and apparent intention to hide information from the Committee is more evidence that OPR operates to protect Department attorneys from independent accountability,” Jordan asserted. “This letter serves as a formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials related to OPR&#8217;s investigation into Special Counsel Smith and members of his prosecution team. Your office 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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In late November, a judge rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request that Smith preserve his records. In his request, Paxton <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.396773/gov.uscourts.txnd.396773.1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that he “fears that many releasable records &#8230; will never see daylight. That is not because DOJ has any legal reason to withhold them. Rather, Attorney General Paxton has a well-founded belief as set forth herein that Defendants will simply destroy the records. That is how they and/or their predecessors have operated in the recent past. And Jack Smith’s team has conducted itself in multiple ways that suggest it cannot be blindly trusted to preserve, and eventually produce, all of its records.”

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Heading into President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, there are a lot of unanswered questions about the Biden administration’s weaponization of the federal government, from its censorship of conservative media <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/biden-covid-censorship-revealed-npr-bias-probe-afternoon-update-5-3-24">during COVID</a> to the recently uncovered <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs">FEMA scandal</a>. 
While congressional Republicans have unearthed a few answers, many questions still remain. With control of the White House, the Trump administration will have a unique opportunity to investigate and potentially uncover the full extent of the weaponization and exactly which federal officials were involved. 
While there are numerous departments worthy of scrutiny, here are four the Trump administration could probe.
<h3>Targeting Political Opponents</h3>
Under Biden’s direction, peaceful pro-life protesters have been jailed, concerned parents have been investigated as “domestic terrorists,” and Trump supporters like Elon Musk have been targeted for prosecution.
In the first year of the Biden administration, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo in October 2021 calling for a crackdown on alleged threats against public school employees. The memo came after the National School Board Association (NSBA) sent a letter in September 2021 to Biden comparing threats against school officials to domestic terrorism and hate crimes.
It was later <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1077243/garland-defends-doj-memo-despite-nsba-letter-being-withdrawn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> that the NSBA had corresponded about the letter with the White House before the Garland memo was issued. The House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/weaponization-panel-finds-no-legitimate-basis-for-doj-school-board-memo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later found</a> that federal law enforcement had “no legitimate basis” for the memo.
The memo prompted outrage from Republicans who said the administration was trying to intimidate parents concerned about leftist-infused curriculum.
In another example of weaponization, peaceful pro-life protesters were aggressively prosecuted by the Biden administration under a novel legal strategy. The protesters <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/six-defendants-convicted-federal-civil-rights-conspiracy-and-freedom-access-clinic-entrances" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were charged</a> with “a felony conspiracy against rights and a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) offense,” punishable by over 10 years in prison. The &#8220;conspiracy against rights&#8221; statute was first passed during Reconstruction to target violence done by the Klu Klux Klan. 
Pro-lifers from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-demonstrators-found-guilty-face-up-to-11-years-in-federal-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-89-year-old-woman-convicted-faces-over-a-decade-in-prison-for-peaceful-pro-life-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> to Washington, D.C., were convicted on these charges and face years in prison. Multiple defendants are already in prison while more are waiting to be sentenced.
The defendants include 89-year-old Eva Edl, a survivor of a communist death camp in Eastern Europe, and Paul Vaughn, a father of 11 whose home was raided by the FBI with guns drawn early morning in October 2022. 
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chip-roy-demands-biden-harris-admin-preserve-records-of-peaceful-pro-lifers-prosecutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> that the Biden administration preserve all records of its prosecution of the peaceful pro-life protesters to understand how the cases were brought and why.
There are countless other examples of the Biden administration going after its opponents from the DOJ’s cases <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jack-smith-moves-to-drop-cases-against-trump-over-2020-election-classified-docs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">against Trump</a> to the Federal Trade Commission’s aggressive oversight of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-musk-from-the-get-go-jim-jordan-reveals-how-biden-harris-ftc-targeted-elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a>. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said that the FTC made increasing demands of Musk after he purchased Twitter, which he had promised to turn into a haven for free speech.
The incoming Trump administration should make every effort to expose these prosecutions and actions to reveal how Biden used his administration to target conservatives.
<h3>FEMA Skipping Homes Of Trump Supporters</h3>
The next administration will also have the opportunity to dig for answers about FEMA’s treatment of Trump supporters during relief operations. A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent report</a> broken by The Daily Wire earlier this month showed that FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington ordered workers in Lake Placid, Florida to “avoid homes advertising Trump.”
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell stated the guidance was isolated and not indicative of a larger problem, while Washington has claimed that FEMA has a widespread policy of avoiding “politically hostile” homes.
In addition to investigations from congressional lawmakers, the agency itself is looking into it and has asked the Inspector General to conduct an independent investigation as well. During <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-we-learned-from-fema-chiefs-day-of-congressional-grilling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testimony before House</a> lawmakers last week, Criswell deferred many of the lawmakers’ questions, saying that the investigation was ongoing.
There are still questions about why the agency didn’t appear to take any disciplinary action against Washington until over a week after a whistleblower report was filed with the Department of Homeland Security. Washington was only fired one day after The Daily Wire report on the instructions, which led to at least 20 homes being skipped.
Since then, other allegations have been made against FEMA, including a whistleblower telling the House Oversight Committee that an agency employee told a family in Georgia to remove their Trump signs from their yard.
The Trump administration could launch a full inquiry into FEMA and determine the full extent of the political bias.
<h3>Censoring Conservative Media</h3>
Another area deserving of a thorough evaluation is the Biden administration’s efforts to censor conservative media outlets, including the Daily Wire.
These revelations were made after Chairman of The House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-releases-new-facebook-files-highlights-how-biden-admin-sought-to-suppress-daily-wire-content">released</a> a number of emails showing efforts by the Biden administration to limit the reach of conservative outlets like The Daily Wire on Facebook.
In the emails, Rob Flaherty, Biden’s censorship czar, suggested that Facebook should “change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see [New York Times], [Wall Street Journal], any authoritative news source over The Daily Wire.”
In another email, Flaherty questioned the reach of the New York Post.
“I’m curious – NY Post churning out articles every day… What is supposed to happen to that from Policy perspective. Does that article get a reduction, labels?” Flaherty asked Facebook.
This stemmed from Flaherty telling Facebook that he needed to “explain” to Biden “why there is misinfo on the internet.&#8221;
These emails, and others later released, show how closely the White House was working with Big Tech companies, and how concerned the companies were with satisfying demands from administration officials.
Aside from censoring COVID information, Biden’s State Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-and-the-federalist-sue-biden-state-department-over-censorship-effort">was sued</a> over its Global Engagement Center and attempts to censor information from domestic media.
The new Trump administration has an opportunity to investigate whether Biden participated in any additional censorship efforts and which government employees were all involved.
<h3>Spying On Financial Transactions</h3>
Earlier this year, Rep. Jordan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-flagged-terms-like-trump-maga-for-banks-to-comb-through-customer-data-jordan-says">revealed</a> how federal officials were ordering banks to comb through customer data in search of terms like “TRUMP” or “MAGA” used in transactions.
This came after the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) asked banks to help federal law enforcement identify transactions of &#8220;persons of interest&#8221; using specific typologies and Merchant Category Codes after January 6, 2021.
Other transaction keywords identified by the feds included “Cabela’s” and “Dick’s Sporting Goods,” along with the purchase of “religious texts” as potentially problematic.
“Despite these transactions having no apparent criminal nexus — and, in fact, relate to Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights — FinCEN seems to have adopted a characterization of these Americans as potential threat actors,” Jordan wrote in January. “This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans’ private transactions is alarming and raises serious doubts about FinCEN’s respect for fundamental civil liberties.”
The next administration should probe the full extent of the government’s surveillance of Americans’ financial transactions and see if similar techniques were used in other investigations or prosecutions.
At a time when trust in the government has plummeted, the Biden administration has only added to the distrust. From censoring conservative media outlets to locking up peaceful pro-lifers, Biden’s four year tenure was marked by increased government weaponization. 
President-elect Trump has an opportunity to hold federal bureaucrats accountable for their weaponization of the government.

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