Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> agreed to “look into” questions from Republican lawmakers about the Biden administration’s application of the FACE Act during a congressional appropriations hearing on Tuesday. 
Garland told Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) during a budget request hearing for the Justice Department that he would hand over data on the DOJ’s prosecution FACE Act charges if that information existed. Republican lawmakers have argued that the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that criminalizes the use of force or threats of force that prevent someone from accessing an abortion facility, has been weaponized against pro-life activists. 
“My colleague, Congressman Chip Roy, has twice requested a copy of the Freedom of Access to Entrance of Clinics Act prosecution data,&#8221; Clyde said. &#8220;He first asked for it in October 2022 and then again two months ago on February 16. He has yet to receive this data. My question to you is when will this data be provided by the Department of Justice?”
Garland replied that he would be “very happy to look into this,” but added that he was unfamiliar with the specific request. He said the DOJ would provide the data if it “exists.”
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The DOJ has repeatedly stonewalled my friend <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepChipRoy</a>’s requests for FACE Act data.
Joe Biden’s DOJ is desperate to hide the truth about its weaponization of this law against pro-life Americans.
Today, I pressed AG Garland to commit to finally providing this information. <a href="https://t.co/ETM5Kamyjy">pic.twitter.com/ETM5Kamyjy</a>
&mdash; Rep. Andrew Clyde (@Rep_Clyde) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rep_Clyde/status/1780303690697498844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-call-for-repeal-of-weaponized-face-act-after-conviction-of-peaceful-pro-lifers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began a renewed push</a> for access for FACE Act data after six pro-lifer activists were convicted in February over a peaceful demonstration at an abortion facility in Tennessee in March 2021. Upon sentencing in July, they could face hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and up to 10.5 years in prison after the Biden administration accused them of conspiring against rights secured by the FACE Act.
After the hearing, Clyde said that Biden’s Justice Department had purposely been hiding the data. “The DOJ has repeatedly stonewalled my friend<a href="https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy"> @RepChipRoy</a>’s requests for FACE Act data,” Clyde posted to X. “Joe Biden’s DOJ is desperate to hide the truth about its weaponization of this law against pro-life Americans.”
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Roy, alongside Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), have repeatedly pushed for the FACE Act to be repealed. Lee has noted that the FACE Act, which supposed to be used to protect churches and pregnancy centers as well, appears to only be used to target pro-life activists and not pro-abortion activists. 
“Both AG Garland and Assistant AG Clarke have now agreed to release FACE Act data,” Roy’s press office said Tuesday. “Will the DOJ finally stop stonewalling this information? Or are they afraid it will expose just how much the FACE Act has been weaponized against Americans?”
Earlier this month, four more pro-lifers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/four-pro-lifers-face-prison-time-after-being-convicted-in-federal-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were convicted</a> in Tennessee over a peaceful pro-life protest. They face up to six months in prison and thousands of dollars in fines upon sentencing.

Attorney General Garland Testifies Before House Appropriations Committee

Garland Tells Republican Lawmakers He Will ‘Look Into’ Requests For Data On ‘Weaponized’ Law

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Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> is getting another chance to deliver audio recordings from special counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s investigation into President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s handling of classified documents to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a>.
House Oversight Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Comer</a> (R-KY) and Judiciary Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) sent a letter to Garland on Monday saying he had 10 more days to fully comply with their February subpoenas or face contempt of Congress proceedings.
&#8220;Your response to the subpoenas remains inadequate, suggesting that you are withholding records for partisan purposes and to avoid political embarrassment for President Biden,&#8221; the pair wrote, according to a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/16/jim-jordan-james-comer-robert-hur-transcript-joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">copy of the letter obtained</a> by The Daily Caller.
The lawmakers said they will have &#8220;no choice but to invoke contempt of Congress proceedings&#8221; unless they are given the audio recordings of Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden and of the special counsel&#8217;s interview with Biden&#8217;s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer.
&#8220;To avoid this, the Committees expect you to produce all responsive materials no later than 12:00 p.m. on April 25, 2024,&#8221; Comer and Jordan added.
The two chairmen had previously set an April 8 deadline, warning their committees would &#8220;consider taking further action, such as the invocation of contempt of Congress proceedings&#8221; without full compliance.
Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/garland-risks-contempt-of-congress-as-doj-spurns-house-gop-demand-for-biden-audio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent</a> a letter to the lawmakers on April 8, saying a transcript for the two-day interview with Biden already provided to them should be sufficient. A transcript of Hur&#8217;s interview with Zwonitzer was also given.
The Department of Justice is &#8220;concerned&#8221; about the demands &#8220;that is cumulative of information we already gave you&#8221; and they indicate lawmakers want it for &#8220;political purposes&#8221; rather than &#8220;legitimate oversight or investigatory functions,&#8221; Uriarte said.
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Hur&#8217;s report, which was released in February, criticized Biden&#8217;s retention of classified records while out of office, yet the prosecutor declined to recommend charges.
The report described Biden as a &#8220;sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory&#8221; whom a jury likely would not convict &#8220;of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.&#8221;
Hur also found that Zwonitzer deleted recordings of conversations he had with Biden upon learning about the documents inquiry.
However, the ghostwriter provided &#8220;plausible, innocent reasons&#8221; for his actions during the interview and Hur said he ultimately determined the evidence would not suffice for a conviction on obstruction of justice.
Biden and the White House have pushed back against Hur&#8217;s characterizations in his report, but Garland insisted that it would have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/garland-says-censoring-hurs-biden-docs-report-would-have-been-absurd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;absurd&#8221;</a> for someone in his position to have edited or censored the special counsel&#8217;s explanation.
During testimony on Tuesday, Garland <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1780261901768831242" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> his agency sent correspondence &#8220;explaining our position with respect to the recordings&#8221; and noted the &#8220;longstanding practice&#8221; of keeping witness records confidential to not &#8220;chill&#8221; future investigations.

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House Republicans Give AG Merrick Garland One More Chance To Deliver Audio From Biden Docs Probe

House Republicans Give AG Merrick Garland One More Chance To Deliver  Audio From Biden Docs Probe

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A group of 16 Republican attorneys general told Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> on Wednesday that he was sowing “distrust” in the American electoral system with his comments criticizing state election integrity laws.
Led by Indiana AG Todd Rokita and West Virginia AG Patrick Morrisey, the Republican officials sent a <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/INAG/2024/04/10/file_attachments/2843216/FINAL%20Garland%20Election%20Letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Garland over <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-deliver-remarks-bloody-sunday-tabernacle-baptist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments</a> he made in Alabama discussing the Justice Department&#8217;s efforts to challenge Red state laws related to voter identification requirements and safeguards on vote-by-mail initiatives.
“The Biden administration is weaponizing the U.S. Department of Justice against the states,” Rokita said in a statement. “These actions pose a direct threat to democracy, election integrity and the rule of law. We will stand up and defend our rightful authority within the framework of American federalism.”
The letter was referring to a speech Garland gave at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma on March 3. At the church, Garland said the DOJ was “challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in-voting, the use of drop boxes, and voter ID requirements.”
According to the Republicans, these comments threatened the principles of federalism and the separation of powers, as well as the rule of law. Joining Indiana and West Virginia were the attorneys general of Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah.
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“By using the DOJ against the states, you continue to sow the seeds of distrust among the American electorate,” the officials said. “The DOJ has no authority to dictate to the states in matters that concern their sovereign right to ensure safe, secure, and free elections. Although we do not know exactly the strategy the DOJ intends to take with its numerous election attorneys, we intend to vigorously defend our election laws. We will not allow intimidation and fear mongering to supersede the will of the people.”
The Republicans argued that the DOJ’s criticism of voter ID laws didn’t make sense because people were required to provide IDs for voting, driving a car, purchasing alcohol, or boarding an airplane. The letter also pointed to a bipartisan report that came out in 2005 that found that absentee voting could open up the door for fraud, saying that Garland’s criticism of state laws tightening up scrutiny of mail-in-voting was unfounded. 
As the DOJ plans to challenge state election laws ahead of the 2024 election, the RNC has filed several suits to make Democratic secretaries of state in Michigan and Nevada clean up their voter rolls and enforce voter ID laws.

Attorney General Merrick Garland Makes Antitrust Announcement At Dept. Of Justice

Republican Attorneys General Warn Biden Admin About Challenging Election Integrity Laws

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has chosen to rebuff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> seeking audio of special counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s interviews with President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> for a classified documents investigation despite a threat to hold Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> in contempt of Congress for defying their subpoenas.
Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte wrote in a <a href="https://punchbowl.news/2024-04-08-out-jordan-comer-re-sco-hur/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> sent to House Oversight Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Comer</a> (R-KY) and Judiciary Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) on Monday — which was the deadline the congressional leaders set for the materials — that a transcript for the two-day interview that was already provided to them should be sufficient.
&#8220;The Department is concerned that the Committees&#8217; particular focus on continuing to demand information that is cumulative of information we already gave you — what the President and Mr. Hur&#8217;s team said in the interview — indicates that the Committees&#8217; interests may not be in receiving information in service of legitimate oversight or investigatory functions, but to serve political purposes that should have no role in the treatment of law enforcement files,&#8221; Uriarte said.
Comer and Jordan <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-03-25%20JDJ%20JC%20to%20DOJ%20re%20Hur%20subpoena%20and%20contempt.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to Garland two weeks ago, saying they received redacted transcripts of Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden on March 12, just hours before the special counsel testified before the House. The chairmen again demanded audio recordings of Hur&#8217;s interview with Biden, which they had stressed as a priority, and audio recordings of the special counsel&#8217;s interview with Biden&#8217;s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, in compliance with subpoenas from February.
If Garland failed to provide the materials by April 8, the committees &#8220;will consider taking further action, such as the invocation of contempt of Congress proceedings,&#8221; they warned.
The committees have &#8220;already received the extraordinary accommodation of the transcripts, which gives you the information you say you need,&#8221; Uriarte claimed. &#8220;To go further by producing the audio files would compound the likelihood that future prosecutors will be unable to secure this level of cooperation. They might have a harder time obtaining consent to an interview at all. It is clearly not in the public interest to render such cooperation with prosecutors and investigators less likely in the future.&#8221;
Uriarte said his letter &#8220;supplements&#8221; previous responses to the panels and noted a transcript of Hur&#8217;s interview with Zwonitzer was enclosed as &#8220;further accommodation.&#8221; He argued that the information provided &#8220;does appear&#8221; to resolve the concerns raised by Comer and Jordan related to legislative oversight of the DOJ and the impeachment inquiry against Biden.
In a sign that the clash over materials from Hur&#8217;s investigation into Biden&#8217;s handling of classified records is not yet over, Comer released a statement that said Oversight and Judiciary Committees will &#8220;soon&#8221; respond to DOJ while seeking &#8220;needed&#8221; information.
&#8220;The Biden Administration does not get to determine what Congress needs and does not need for its oversight of the executive branch,&#8221; Comer <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1777448098308001999" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;The American people deserve to hear the actual audio of President Biden’s answers to Special Counsel Hur.&#8221;
Seeming to anticipate an escalation, Uriarte pleaded how it is &#8220;not too late for the Committees to choose a different path, to take on offramp towards the &#8216;spirit of dynamic compromise&#8217; that the Constitution requires of us both.&#8221;
Hur&#8217;s report, which was released in February, criticized Biden&#8217;s retention of classified records while out of office, yet the prosecutor declined to recommend charges. The report described Biden as a &#8220;sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory&#8221; whom a jury likely would not convict &#8220;of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.&#8221;
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The special counsel also found that Zwonitzer deleted recordings of conversations he had with Biden upon learning about the documents inquiry, but the ghostwriter provided &#8220;plausible, innocent reasons&#8221; for his actions and other materials. Ultimately, Hur said he determined the evidence would not suffice for a conviction on obstruction of justice.
Biden and the White House have pushed back against Hur&#8217;s characterizations in his report, but Garland insisted that it would have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/garland-says-censoring-hurs-biden-docs-report-would-have-been-absurd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;absurd&#8221;</a> for someone in his position to have edited or censored the special counsel&#8217;s explanation.

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Garland Risks Contempt Of Congress As DOJ Spurns House GOP Demand For Biden Audio

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On Monday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> threatened to hold Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> in contempt of Congress over materials from special counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s investigation into President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> handling of classified documents.
Oversight Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Comer</a> (R-KY) and Judiciary Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) sent a <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-03-25%20JDJ%20JC%20to%20DOJ%20re%20Hur%20subpoena%20and%20contempt.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Garland that claimed the Department of Justice (DOJ) is withholding materials that are responsive to their subpoenas, specifically citing audio recordings of Hur&#8217;s interviews with Biden as well as the transcript and audio recordings of Hur&#8217;s interviews with Biden&#8217;s ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.
&#8220;The February 27 subpoenas create a legal obligation on you to produce this material,&#8221; Comer and Jordan wrote. &#8220;Accordingly, the Committees expect you to produce all responsive materials no later than 12:00 p.m. on April 8, 2024. If you fail to do so, the Committees will consider taking further action, such as the invocation of contempt of Congress proceedings.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to the DOJ seeking comment.
&#8220;The Department has been extraordinarily transparent with Congress,&#8221; a DOJ spokeswoman said in response. &#8220;The Attorney General released Mr. Hur’s report to Congress and made no redactions or changes, the Department provided documents to Congress including a copy of the President’s interview transcript, and Mr. Hur testified before Congress for more than five hours about his investigation.&#8221;
The spokeswoman added, &#8220;Given the Department’s ongoing and extensive cooperation, we hope they will reconsider this unnecessary escalation.&#8221;
Hur&#8217;s report, which was released last month, criticized Biden&#8217;s retention of classified records following his service as a U.S. senator and vice president, but the prosecutor declined to recommend charges.
The report described Biden as a &#8220;sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory&#8221; whom a jury likely would not convict &#8220;of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.&#8221;
Biden and the White House have pushed back against Hur&#8217;s characterizations in his report, but Garland insisted last week that it would have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/garland-says-censoring-hurs-biden-docs-report-would-have-been-absurd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;absurd&#8221;</a> for someone in his position to have edited or censored the special counsel&#8217;s explanation.
Following the release of Hur&#8217;s report, Comer and Jordan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-subpoena-garland-for-biden-docs-probe-materials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> they had subpoenaed Garland, declaring in a cover letter that the DOJ failed to produce any of the materials they had previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-set-deadline-for-doj-to-produce-biden-docs-probe-materials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> — including transcripts, notes, video, and audio files.
The chairmen suggested that documents retained by Biden may be pertinent to the corruption-focused impeachment inquiry into the president and said they wanted to know if the White House or Biden’s personal attorneys placed any limitations or scoping restrictions during the interviews.
Comer and Jordan also wrote the Judiciary Committee sought materials for its oversight of the DOJ&#8217;s &#8220;commitment to impartial justice and its handling of the investigation and prosecution of President Biden’s presumptive opponent, President Donald J. Trump, in the November 2024 presidential election.&#8221;
On the March 7 subpoena deadline, the department provided an &#8220;insufficient production that only included letters exchanged between President Biden’s legal counsel and the Department, along with an offer to review two classified documents in camera,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote in their new letter.
Comer and Jordan said they notified the DOJ on March 9 that the production was &#8220;inadequate&#8221; and demanded the department produce &#8220;all&#8221; materials responsive to their subpoenas by the afternoon of March 11, one day before <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accusations-fly-as-hur-clashes-with-schiff-on-biden-docs-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hur testified</a> before the House Judiciary Committee about his investigation.
Yet again, the DOJ &#8220;failed to comply&#8221; with their deadline, instead informing committee staff &#8220;that an &#8216;interagency review&#8217; for classified and confidential information was still pending,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote. A little more than two hours before Hur was scheduled to testify, the DOJ produced two redacted transcripts of the special counsel&#8217;s interviews with Biden, they added.
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Comer and Jordan noted that news reports indicated that &#8220;several&#8221; news outlets received and reviewed the transcripts of Hur&#8217;s interviews with Biden before they were produced to their committees, even though the DOJ indicated that it only completed the &#8220;interagency review&#8221; of the transcripts the morning of March 12.
&#8220;Because the Department and the White House were presumably the only two entities with copies of the transcripts before the Committees received them, we can only assume that, for political purposes, the Department and White House provided the transcripts to news outlets before the Department completed its “interagency review” process,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote. &#8220;If that is not the case, we can only assume that the Department misled the Committees about the timing of its completion of such process.&#8221;

House Republicans Threaten Garland With Contempt Over Biden Docs Probe Materials

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice announced on Saturday the launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center — to the surprise of some congressional Republicans.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a Saturday <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-launches-national-extreme-risk-protection-order-resource-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> that the new national resource center “will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others.” Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), commonly referred to as “red flag” laws, allow authorities to confiscate firearms from a person whom a court deems to be a risk to himself or others. ERPOs also prevent a person from buying or possessing a gun for the duration of the order.
“The establishment of the Center is the latest example of the Justice Department’s work to use every tool provided by the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to protect communities from gun violence,” Garland said.
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Justice Department Launches the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center
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The resource center, which was launched with a new <a href="https://erpo.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, is described as “a resource for implementers” that will “provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.”
The National ERPO Resource Center website also provides a state-by-state guide for red flag laws across the country, along with specific information on each state’s ERPO law. Currently, 21 states and the District of Columbia have red flag laws on the books.
Republicans in the House and Senate were surprised to learn of the DOJ&#8217;s new gun-control resource center. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1771521716805669016" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reposted</a> the DOJ’s announcement on X and asked, “What the hell is this evil?”
“A Federal Red Flag center; We did not authorize this. Announced, of course, just hours after the omnibus passes,” Massie added.
“Oh, really?” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1771521734358757641" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in response to the DOJ announcing the resource center.
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) simply <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1771553244180869500" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the DOJ’s post, “Nope.”
Dana Loesch, a Second Amendment advocate and critic of red flag laws, said the DOJ’s National ERPO Resource Center “is an attack on due process.”
“This won’t apply to Hunter Biden, illegal aliens, or cartel members that Dems fight to arm. This is an attack on due process and ignores existing law that provides a way to adjudicate someone ineligible,” Loesch <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1771544901030727689" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “All previous tragedies were preventable without removal of due process.”
President Biden has fought to implement more gun control on a national level, issuing an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-unveils-effort-to-crack-down-on-firearm-industry-enhance-background-checks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> last year expanding background checks for firearm purchases. Biden has also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-vows-ban-assault-weapons-come-hell-high-water" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> “to ban assault weapons again come hell or high water and high capacity magazines.&#8221;

DOJ Launches National ‘Resource Center’ To Aid Authorities In Taking Firearms From People Deemed ‘Threat To Themselves Or Others’

DOJ Launches National 'Resource Center' To Aid Authorities In Taking Firearms From People Deemed 'Threat To Themselves Or Others'

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Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> rejected suggestions by critics that he should have altered <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-hur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Hur</a>&#8216;s special counsel report on President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> handling of classified documents.
Speaking with reporters on Thursday, Garland dismissed the notion that someone in his position should have masked Hur&#8217;s description of Biden&#8217;s foggy memory while declining to pursue charges.
“The idea that an attorney general would edit or redact or censor the special counsel’s explanation for why the special counsel reached the decision the special counsel did — that’s absurd,” Garland <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1770845812198678782" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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Hur&#8217;s report, which was released last month, criticized Biden&#8217;s retention of classified records following his service as a U.S. senator and vice president, but the prosecutor declined to recommend charges.
The report described Biden as a &#8220;sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory&#8221; whom a jury likely would not convict &#8220;of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.&#8221;
Biden delivered remarks at the White House in response to the report, insisting that his memory was &#8220;fine&#8221; just moments before <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-explodes-during-press-conference-on-his-mental-fitness-makes-several-mental-mistakes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he mistakenly said</a> Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was the president of Mexico.
POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018d-ae03-dff1-a7df-effb0b150000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a White House letter to Garland <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/15/white-house-doj-biden-report-00141729" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a day before</a> the attorney general released Hur&#8217;s report, claiming some aspects &#8220;openly, obviously, and blatantly&#8221; violated Justice Department policy and practice.
During a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-robert-hur-gives-explosive-testimony-to-congress-about-criminal-probe-into-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congressional hearing</a> earlier this month, Hur <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDonaldsPress/status/1767565644357087243" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> that his &#8220;assessment in the report about the relevance of the president&#8217;s memory was necessary, and accurate, and fair.&#8221;
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While facing claims of political bias from Democrats, Hur <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accusations-fly-as-hur-clashes-with-schiff-on-biden-docs-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> regulations &#8220;required&#8221; him to write a confidential report explaining his decision-making to Garland.
But it was ultimately Garland&#8217;s call on how much of the report to release to the public in accordance with legal requirements and Department of Justice policy, Hur added.
Garland picked Hur, who served as a U.S. attorney in Maryland during the Trump administration, to lead the documents probe early last year.
When the investigation came to a close, Garland <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/garland-informs-congress-biden-docs-probe-is-complete" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he was &#8220;committed to making as much of the Special Counsel’s report public as possible, consistent with legal requirements and Department policy.&#8221;

Garland Says Censoring Hur’s Biden Docs Report Would Have Been ‘Absurd’

Garland Says Censoring Hur's Biden Docs Report Would Have Been 'Absurd'

Speaking on Sunday in Selma, Alabama, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland decried efforts by states to implement voter ID requirements as “discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary.”
Garland <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-deliver-remarks-bloody-sunday-tabernacle-baptist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> at an event at the Tabernacle Baptist Church to commemorate the 59th anniversary of Selma police officers attacking demonstrators in the civil rights movement.
“There are many things that are open to debate in America,” Garland declared. “One thing that must not be open for debate is the right of all eligible citizens to vote and to have their vote counted.”
Garland did not define what he meant by “eligible.”
After citing the history of black people being denied voting rights, he claimed, “Court decisions in recent years have drastically weakened the protections of the Voting Rights Act that marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge bled for 59 years ago. And since those decisions, there has been a dramatic increase in legislative measures that make it harder for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect the representatives of their choice.”
“The right to vote is still under attack,” he declared. “And that is why the Justice Department is fighting back. That is why, one of the first things I did as Attorney General was to double the number of lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division.”
“That is why we are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes, and voter ID requirements,” he stated.
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Biden AG Merrick Garland, speaking at an Alabama church, says election integrity efforts — such as voter ID requirements and restrictions on ballot &quot;drop boxes&quot; — are &quot;discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/UExpO3nGbD">pic.twitter.com/UExpO3nGbD</a>
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“Thirty-six state laws request or require voters to show some form of identification at the polls,” the National Conference of State Legislatures <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a>. “Fourteen states and Washington, D.C., do not require any documentation to vote at the polls.”
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“Voters across all demographics support voter ID laws in virtually every poll by almost 80%. This typically includes more than 60% of Democrats,” the Heritage Foundation <a href="https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/voter-id-laws-are-popular-good-reasons" target="_blank" rel="noopener">points out</a>, adding, “64% of black voters, 77% of Hispanics, and 76% of low-income voters support voter ID laws, according to a poll conducted by the <a href="https://www.ohiosos.gov/globalassets/media-center/news/2023/2023-01-06/memo-on-voters-and-elections-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-external="yes">Honest Elections Project</a>.”

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On Tuesday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> announced they had subpoenaed Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> for materials from special counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s investigation into President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> handling of classified documents that culminated with a report released earlier this month.
Oversight Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Comer</a> (R-KY) and Judiciary Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) are demanding records — including transcripts, notes, video, and audio files — as part of the subpoena, according to a statement from their respective committees. NewsNation <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/house-subpoena-hur-transcripts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that they set a deadline of March 7, which is the day Biden is expected to deliver his State of the Union address.
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🚨 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jim_Jordan</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJamesComer</a> subpoena Attorney General Merrick Garland for records, including transcripts, notes, video, and audio files, related to Special Counsel Robert Hur&#39;s investigation of President Joe Biden&#39;s willful mishandling of classified information. <a href="https://t.co/S1pEOllVWl">pic.twitter.com/S1pEOllVWl</a>
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The chairmen said in a subpoena <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Subpoena-Cover-Letter-to-AG-Garland_Hur-Report-Materials-Joint-Letter-2-27-24.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cover letter</a> that the Department of Justice (DOJ) failed to produce any of the materials they <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-set-deadline-for-doj-to-produce-biden-docs-probe-materials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a>, such as the transcripts and recordings of the special counsel’s two-day interview with the president, with a February 19 deadline.
They wrote that the DOJ responded by saying it was &#8220;working to gather and process&#8221; responsive documents, including a review for &#8220;classification&#8221; and &#8220;confidentiality interests,&#8221; but did not offer a timeframe by which it expected to make any productions or &#8220;any commitment that it would produce all of the material requested.&#8221;
Comer and Jordan noted that their panels, in coordination with the Ways and Means Committee, are leading an impeachment inquiry into Biden and speculated that the president may have retained sensitive documents related to &#8220;specific countries&#8221; involving his facility&#8217;s foreign business ventures.
They said the committees &#8220;further seek to understand whether the White House or President Biden’s personal attorneys placed any limitations or scoping restrictions during the interviews&#8221; with Hur or Biden&#8217;s ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer &#8220;precluding or addressing any potential statements directly linking President Biden to troublesome foreign payments.&#8221;
Comer and Jordan also wrote that the Judiciary Committee seeks materials for its &#8220;ongoing oversight of the Department’s commitment to impartial justice and its handling of the investigation and prosecution of President Biden’s presumptive opponent, President Donald J. Trump, in the November 2024 presidential election.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to the DOJ seeking comment.
Hur&#8217;s report criticized Biden&#8217;s retention of classified documents while out of office following his service as a U.S. senator and then vice president. Although Hur did not recommend charges, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the 388-page report</a> said Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-biden-has-significantly-limited-memory-didnt-remember-when-he-was-vp-or-when-son-died" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exhibited memory problems</a> that likely would preclude a jury from convicting the president.
Biden delivered remarks at the White House in response to the report, insisting that his memory &#8220;is fine&#8221; just moments before <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-explodes-during-press-conference-on-his-mental-fitness-makes-several-mental-mistakes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he mistakenly said</a> Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was the president of Mexico while talking about Israel&#8217;s fight against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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The president also criticized Hur&#8217;s assertion in the report that Biden struggled to remember when his son Beau died of brain cancer, saying, &#8220;How in the hell dare he raise that. Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.&#8221;
NBC News then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-subverts-bidens-attack-line-against-special-counsel-hur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a report</a> citing sources who said Hur did not ask Biden about Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015, but rather the president brought up his son’s passing. The insiders added that Biden got the day and month correct, but not the year of Beau’s death. The younger Biden died on May 30, 2015, at the age of 46.
Hur <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/15/congress/house-gop-schedules-hur-interview-00141743" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may testify</a> before Congress in the coming weeks.
Two weeks ago, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1757114496319975618" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> journalists to the White House counsel when asked about releasing the transcript of Biden’s interview with Hur.

House Republicans Subpoena Garland For Biden Docs Probe Materials

Top House Republicans are pressing Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> on whether the Justice Department shielded Hunter Biden during the corruption trial of one of his Chinese associates. 
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) and House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) wrote <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-02-20%20JDJ%20JC%20to%20Garland%20re%20Ho%206%28e%29%20material.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a letter</a> to Garland on Tuesday requesting information on the DOJ’s prosecution of Chi Ping &#8220;Patrick&#8221; Ho, a Chinese businessman who was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> in 2019 to three years in prison for bribing officials in Uganda and Chad for the benefit of CEFC China Energy. In their letter, they said that the available evidence indicated that DOJ prosecutors purposely kept Hunter out of the investigation despite his ties to Ho and CEFC. 
“Information obtained by the Committees indicate that prosecutors sought to keep the Biden name out of Mr. Ho’s trial. First, as the Oversight Committee previously noted, prosecutors in Mr. Ho’s case seemingly redacted Hunter Biden’s name from evidence used at trial,” the Republicans wrote.
At Ho&#8217;s trial, Vuk Jeremic, the former president of the United Nations General Assembly, testified that he worked as a consultant for CEFC, which was headed by Chinese businessman Ye Jianming. Jeremic said he worked to link the company to prominent businessmen and politicians. 
“During the trial, a prosecutor requested that the judge redact from an email between Ho and Jeremic that DOJ intended to introduce into evidence the name of ‘an individual that Mr. Jeremic was willing to bring to a dinner with the chairman Mr. Ye,’” the letter said. 
The judge agreed to exclude the name of the individual Jeremic wanted to bring for dinner with Ye because including it “could introduce a political dimension to this case that [prosecutors] don’t think is worth dealing with,” according to the Republicans letter. 
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Jordan and Comer said that the evidence indicated that the redacted name was Hunter, who was linked to both Ho and CEFC in the years leading up to the trial. 
&#8220;In the years immediately preceding Mr. Ho&#8217;s trial and during his trial, Hunter Biden was closely connected to both Mr. Ho and CEFC. Mr. Biden’s business relationship with CEFC is lengthy and well-documented, and resulted in Mr. Biden receiving millions of dollars without providing an identifiable product or service,” the letter said. “Additionally, Mr. Ho paid Hunter Biden $1 million to serve as his legal counsel, though it is not clear what work Mr. Biden actually performed—especially since Mr. Biden is not a licensed attorney in New York.”
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The lawmakers want the DOJ to provide the unredacted email between Ho and Jeremic as well as the contents of Ho’s iPad, which was seized during the investigation.
The letter to Garland is part of House Republicans investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings abroad and impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The president has denied ever discussing business with Hunter, a claim that has come under increasing scrutiny as the corruption probe continues.

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Special counsel Robert Hur has wrapped up his investigation into President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s retention of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/classified-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">classified documents</a> while out of office, the Department of Justice informed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> on Wednesday.
Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> wrote a <a href="https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1755372627768603003" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to congressional leaders that said Hur submitted his final report this week, along with appendices and a letter from counsel, after the prosecutor engaged with the White House&#8217;s and Biden&#8217;s personal lawyers for comments.
&#8220;That included review by the White House Counsel&#8217;s Office for executive privilege consistent with the President&#8217;s constitutional prerogatives,&#8221; Garland said. &#8220;The White House&#8217;s privilege review has not yet concluded.&#8221;
Garland said he is &#8220;committed to making as much of the Special Counsel&#8217;s report public as possible, consistent with legal requirements and Department policy,&#8221; and vowed to produce to Congress the report, its appendices, and the letter from counsel following the completion of the White House&#8217;s privilege review.
White House spokesman Ian Sams <a href="https://twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1755374929954955434" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told multiple</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WardDPatrick/status/1755386268500836558" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news outlets</a> the White House expects the privilege review to be completed by the end of the week, meaning Congress and the public could get to see Hur&#8217;s findings in the next couple of days.
The letter follows reports saying that Biden&#8217;s team was <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/04/biden-special-counsel-classified-docs-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bracing for the report</a>, including the potential for embarrassing details and photos, and noting there would be <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/biden-classified-documents-probe-report-expected-soon-no-charges-rcna137632" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no criminal charges</a>.
Garland <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/merrick-garland-appoints-special-counsel-to-investigate-biden-classified-document-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Hur, who served as a U.S. attorney in Maryland during the Trump administration, would lead the probe as special counsel in January of 2023 after the discovery of records marked classified at Biden’s office at a D.C. think tank <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/classified-documents-bidens-vice-presidency-found-think-tank-cbs-news-2023-01-09/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in the days before</a> the 2022 midterms.
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Further searches by Biden’s lawyers and the FBI also took place at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which turned up more materials of interest to investigators. Some of the documents found in locations linked to Biden are said to date back not only to his time as vice president but also to his tenure as a U.S. senator.
Biden’s representatives said they had been cooperative with investigators and the president claimed there is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-special-counsel-classified-documents-025f25d04a5c0e45d758fbaaa2f231b8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;no there there.&#8221;</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans">House Republicans</a> have signaled that Biden&#8217;s handling of classified documents is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-signals-classified-docs-of-interest-in-biden-impeachment-inquiry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">related</a> to their corruption-focused <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/impeachment">impeachment</a> inquiry into the president and <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Remus-Deposition-Subpoena-11.13.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sought a deposition</a> with former White House Counsel Dana Remus.
Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, who may face Biden in a 2020 rematch in this year&#8217;s election, is also the subject of a classified documents probe led by special counsel Jack Smith. Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-personal-aide-plead-not-guilty-to-new-charges-in-us-documents-superseding-indictment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded not guilty</a> in that criminal matter and in three other cases.

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Garland Informs Congress Biden Docs Probe Is Complete

In the first week of October 2022, 100 days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Joe Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/joe-biden-kamala-harris-reproductive-health-task-force/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held</a> a highly publicized meeting with his so-called &#8220;reproductive rights task force&#8221; in the state dining room of the White House. At the meeting, Biden announced a plan to subvert the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling, to the extent that he could. He instructed Congress to pass legislation that would prevent any state from banning abortion. He also announced millions of dollars in federal funds to promote abortion, and threatened legal consequences for any university that tried to punish a student for killing her child. 
What Joe Biden didn&#8217;t announce is that, as he spoke, his enforcers in the DOJ were planning a &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; style raid designed to intimidate and punish pro-life activists. Just hours after the meeting of Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;task force,&#8221; at 7:00 a.m. on October 5, a team of heavily armed FBI agents <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2022/10/07/after-fbi-raid-pro-life-advocate-was-held-for-6-hours-charged-and-released-with-no-wallet-or-phone/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrived</a> at the Centerville, Tennessee, home of Paul Vaughn. One of the agents apparently delighted in telling one of Vaughn&#8217;s children, who was waiting for him to drive them to school, that their father was going to jail. And indeed, agents arrested Paul Vaughn in front of his children and hauled him away as they refused to answer any of his wife&#8217;s questions. Here&#8217;s some of the footage she recorded from that morning:
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Video of the FBI&#39;s arrest of Paul Vaughn of Centerville, Tennessee. DOJ charged him with “conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act, and committing FACE Act violations&quot; for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic. Paul tells me the footage was taken by his wife. <a href="https://t.co/KSDvLRSrlF">pic.twitter.com/KSDvLRSrlF</a>
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What was Paul Vaughn&#8217;s crime? As I mentioned on the show yesterday, a full year and a half before that FBI raid — in March of 2021 — Paul Vaughn participated in a protest at an abortion facility in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, along with several other pro-life activists. These activists sang and prayed in a hallway outside of the facility. Local police arrived, told these activists to leave, and they refused. So a handful of them were arrested for misdemeanor trespassing.
To add some dark irony to the situation, one of the protesters was booked for &#8220;contributing to the delinquency of a minor,&#8221; because the protester brought a child to the demonstration. So, taking your kid to pray and sing at an abortion facility is &#8220;contributing to their delinquency.&#8221; But killing your kid at the abortion facility is great, apparently. And this is in Tennessee, a state that&#8217;s controlled for the most part by the Republican Party.
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Interestingly enough, Paul Vaughn himself wasn&#8217;t arrested by local police that day, because he was outside, functioning mainly as a liaison between the police and the demonstrators. They didn&#8217;t see any reason to arrest him because he wasn&#8217;t even trespassing in the hallway. And really, the whole situation was obviously overblown anyway. At a press conference following the arrests, a reporter asked the police spokesman why they were bothering to clog the court system with trivial trespassing cases like this. It wasn&#8217;t exactly the crime of the century, and everyone knew it. In case you need a reminder, here&#8217;s what it looked like:
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BREAKING: Six pro-life activists were just found guilty in federal court after being prosecuted by Biden&#39;s DOJ under the FACE Act for protesting outside a Nashville abortion clinic.
Here&#39;s a snippet of the protest, which occurred on March 5, 2021.
For the crime of praying and… <a href="https://t.co/UPzZvtZebM">pic.twitter.com/UPzZvtZebM</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1752428280756482441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Watching these people praying and singing, the Biden administration saw an opportunity. They decided to make an example out of Paul Vaughn and everyone else who protested at that abortion facility. In all, the DOJ <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/eleven-charged-face-act-violations-stemming-2021-blockade-mount-juliet-reproductive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> 11 people for participating in the demonstration, including an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor named Eva Edl. They charged these protesters with violations of the federal &#8220;Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act,&#8221; (or FACE Act), which carries penalties of up to a decade in prison.
There was never any way to justify this charging decision, even using the standards of Joe Biden&#8217;s attorney general, Merrick Garland. Prior to the arrests, Garland <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/15/abortion-rights-clinics-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> under oath in the Senate, “We prosecute without respect to ideology, but we do focus on the most violent acts, the most dangerous actors and the cases most likely to lead to danger to most Americans.”
No part of that statement was true, as it turns out. Not only does the DOJ prosecute explicitly on the basis of ideology, but they&#8217;re also focusing on the least violent and dangerous acts imaginable — namely sitting and praying in front of abortion facilities. And their strategy appears to be working. 
Yesterday, a federal jury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-church-meeting-is-now-a-conspiracy-pro-lifers-pray-outside-court-after-conviction-over-peaceful-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> six pro-life activists, including Paul Vaughn, of FACE Act violations, as well as engaging in a &#8220;conspiracy against rights&#8221;. The jury apparently agreed with the DOJ that Paul Vaughn and another demonstrator, simply by negotiating with police, were really engaging in a &#8220;delaying tactic.&#8221; And therefore, they&#8217;re just as guilty as the demonstrators in the hallway. And now all of these defendants are facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, and up to a decade in prison.
Unfortunately, in the federal system, cameras aren&#8217;t allowed in the courtroom. So we can&#8217;t show you video footage of what the prosecutors said. But thanks to reporter Leif Le Mahieu from The Daily Wire, we do know that in closing arguments the prosecutor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-deliberates-fate-of-six-pro-lifers-facing-11-years-in-prison-over-peaceful-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> these demonstrators were not in fact peaceful protesters simply by virtue of the fact that they committed a crime. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-deliberates-fate-of-six-pro-lifers-facing-11-years-in-prison-over-peaceful-protest">observed</a>: &#8220;During her final statements to the jury, Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Klopf likened the actions of the six pro-lifers to that of a group of people attempting to convince someone not to vote, and blocking the entrance of a polling location. She said that, &#8216;something is not peaceful if laws are broken.'&#8221;
That&#8217;s actually what Joe Biden&#8217;s assistant U.S. attorney said. Her argument is that all crimes are inherently violent simply by virtue of the fact that they involve breaking the law.
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Whatever we think of that reasoning, it&#8217;s obviously insanely inconsistent with Joe Biden’s own stated goal to release “nonviolent offenders” from jail. That&#8217;s why he <a href="https://www.justice.gov/pardon/presidential-proclamation-marijuana-possession#:~:text=On%20October%206%2C%202022%20%2C%20President%20Biden%20announced%20a%20full%2C,people%20with%20those%20prior%20offenses.">pardoned</a> all of those marijuana offenders, supposedly. It&#8217;s also why the DOJ <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-settles-cases-related-police-response-dc-anti-racism-protests-2022-04-13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paid out</a> a massive settlement to those BLM rioters who occupied Lafayette Square near the White House, even though some of them <a href="https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1513657796495085574?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threw</a> frozen water bottles and rocks at police officers. And it&#8217;s why the DOJ dropped more than a third of the criminal cases against BLM rioters who <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/portland-protest-cases-dismissed-feds/283-002f01d2-3217-4b12-8725-3fda2cad119f">sieged</a> a courthouse in Portland. We&#8217;re told all of these offenses were nonviolent and therefore no charges should be brought. Apparently it&#8217;s only when you pray silently outside an abortion facility that you go to prison. That&#8217;s the only nonviolent offense that cannot stand.
So there&#8217;s no denying this argument from Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ is hypocritical. But that&#8217;s not the point, really. Everyone knows that. The point is that under the U.S. Constitution, the government isn&#8217;t allowed to be hypocritical when it comes to enforcing the law. We have something called the Equal Protection Clause. We have Due Process. And if that means anything, it&#8217;s that the government can&#8217;t selectively enforce laws, depending on which ideology it wants to punish. That&#8217;s the problem here. 
Yes, the people who gathered inside that hallway did violate the letter of the FACE Act. They apparently convinced someone not to kill their baby that day, and go home instead, and as the law is written, that&#8217;s a crime. These peaceful activists did violate federal law.
That law, however, happens to be atrocious and unconstitutional for many reasons, one of which is that the law is being unevenly enforced to an extreme degree. The White House isn&#8217;t even attempting to hide this. Joe Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> his pardon of nonviolent marijuana users literally a day after the FBI raised Paul Vaughn&#8217;s home, just to underscore the message he&#8217;s sending. They are absolving one class of nonviolent criminals while hunting down another class of nonviolent criminals like they&#8217;re an Al Qaeda cell.
But they&#8217;re not terrorists, or even close to it. These pro-lifers — a collection of elderly retirees and parents with young children — were engaged in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience. Sending these demonstrators to prison for 11 years for that civil disobedience — which harmed no one and caused no damage to property — is both cruel and clearly unjust.
Maybe it could be explained on some theoretical level if the administration had established a precedent of bringing the hammer down on everyone who violates the law for the sake of making a political point, but that is obviously not the case here. BLM rioters who torched police stations have gotten a fraction of the time. People who harassed Supreme Court justices at their homes haven’t even been arrested, to my knowledge. The administration is punishing political disobedience depending on the politics of the people involved.
It&#8217;s hard to imagine a more Soviet system of &#8220;justice.&#8221; But it&#8217;s the approach that the Biden administration is now committed to. They aren&#8217;t just going after these pro-life demonstrations in Tennessee. They tried to do the same thing to Mark Houck, who was <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253523/acquitted-pro-life-activist-mark-houck-reveals-details-of-fbi-raid-will-press-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> in September of 2022 for an incident that occurred a year earlier, in October of 2021. Houck&#8217;s alleged crime, as I&#8217;ve discussed previously, was shoving a volunteer at an abortion facility, after the guy started harassing Houck&#8217;s 12-year-old son. This was such an absurd non-crime that local police didn&#8217;t pursue any charges, similar to the case of Paul Vaughn. But the DOJ decided to revive the case, around the same time that Joe Biden needed to convince his base that he&#8217;s going to wage a domestic war against pro-lifers.
Notice the pattern here. An incident happens involving pro-lifers. Nobody thinks its a big deal. Local law enforcement isn’t that worried about it. Nobody is harmed. Everyone moves on. Then the federal government comes back around months or years later and decides to literally make a federal case out of it.
This is the very essence of a political witch hunt.
There are many more cases like these. For example, there&#8217;s the case of five pro-life activists who were <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/30/exclusive-cruz-accuses-doj-of-aggressively-targeting-pro-life-activists-who-blew-the-whistle-on-dc-abortionist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> by a Washington, D.C., jury last year for FACE Act violations. One of the activists is a woman named Lauren Handy. Handy began to attract the DOJ&#8217;s attention when she found the bodies of five preemie-sized aborted babies in a box outside an abortion facility in the D.C. neighborhood of Foggy Bottom. According to The Daily Signal, the box &#8220;also contained over a hundred pulverized remains of first-trimester babies.&#8221;
One of the doctors at that clinic, Live Action had previously reported, admitted on a hidden camera that he would allow babies to die if they were accidentally delivered during abortions:
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This is the abortionist currently under fire for the mangled baby bodies recovered right here in DC. Live Action recorded him saying years ago that he would let babies die if they were accidentally delivered during abortions. <a href="https://t.co/Lqb9cOYdwE">pic.twitter.com/Lqb9cOYdwE</a>
&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1511445188916531203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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So Lauren Handy and several others decided to protest this butchery. They looked into this abortion facility. And of course, D.C. police and the DOJ took the side of the people who are murdering babies for profit. Again, they pursued a 10-year sentence for activists engaging in peaceful protest.
To give you an idea of how incomprehensible all of this is, they don&#8217;t even treat pro-life activists this badly in one of the most godless places on the planet, the United Kingdom. Around a year ago, police in Birmingham <a href="https://catholicreview.org/english-police-apologize-to-woman-arrested-for-silently-praying-outside-abortion-facility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> a woman for praying silently outside of an abortion clinic. But the case was so absurd and so wildly unpopular that within a few months, they apologized to her and dropped the charges. Even in Britain, this was too far.
But in this country, conservatives are allowing this purge of pro-lifers to take place, with barely any pushback. You&#8217;ll hear more from conservatives about Taylor Swift than you will about this ideologically driven, unconstitutional attack on civil liberties in this country. What this means is that if these tyrants get another four years in office, there is no doubt that they will ramp up their political persecution. There will be absolutely no one to stop them. Should that come to pass — especially if you care about things like human life and stopping child sacrifices — then before long, there&#8217;s a very good chance they&#8217;ll be knocking on your front door as well.

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