Trump DOJ Promises End to ‘Weaponization’ of FACE Act, Drops Three Cases
The Biden administration used the FACE Act to aggressively prosecute, and sometimes imprison, pro-life activists.

The Biden administration used the FACE Act to aggressively prosecute, and sometimes imprison, pro-life activists.

President Donald Trump addressed pro-life advocates in a video speech at the 52nd annual March for Life on Friday, praising them for their “extraordinary love and compassion for the unborn” while promising to “end the weaponization of law enforcement against Americans of faith.”

President Donald Trump pardoned more than 20 pro-life activists on Thursday who were prosecuted, and some imprisoned, by Biden’s DOJ.

“The ball’s in Pam Bondi’s court,” James Comer says of the Biden Five on the latest Drill Down podcast with Peter Schweizer.

The FACE Act was written to equally protect abortion clinics, pro-life pregnancy resource centers, and churches, however, 97 percent of cases since the law’s inception have been against pro-life advocates.

President Donald Trump’s deputies have expanded the fast-track deportation authority of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to make it easier to deport illegal aliens.

In support of executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on Monday, the Department of Justice directed prosecutors to investigate state and local officials who obstruct federal enforcement actions related to immigration law. A memo from the acting deputy attorney general also creates a “Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group” to focus on these threatened obstruction issues.

President Donald Trump is mobilizing the federal agencies he will need to launch his massive deportation plans.

President Donald Trump began to fire career employees at the Justice Department on Wednesday, a move that signals his promise of purging the administrative state has begun.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the deployment of additional floating barriers on the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. A federal appeals court previously ruled the State could continue its efforts in a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration.

A video of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland leaving the Department of Justice (DOJ) while receiving applause and cheers from staffers and other government officials has received a massive wave of backlash online.

A Texas man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to vandalizing pregnancy centers in May of 2022 in response to the leaked Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Biden’s DOJ has been accused of using the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to go after pro-life activists.

Witnesses testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about Pam Bondi in a confirmation hearing for her to become Attorney General of the United States on Thursday, January 16.

The law has been a flashpoint in the abortion debate during the Biden administration, with the DOJ using the law to almost explicitly go after pro-life advocates.

Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a confirmation hearing for her to become the next Attorney General of the United States on Wednesday, January 15.

Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after failing to successfully bring his cases against President-elect Donald Trump to trial.

Senior Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor Jay Bratt, who was accused of ethical misconduct in the “documents” case against President-elect Donald Trump, has reportedly resigned in advance of the start of the new administration.

President Joe Biden confirmed that the New Orleans terror suspect, who drove a pickup truck through a crowd of people on Bourbon Street, had been “inspired by ISIS.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) released a report on Monday that revealed that three employees had leaked information to the media in an attempt to damage the electoral prospects of Donald Trump.

A woman has been convicted for her role in vandalizing several Florida pro-life pregnancy centers after the Supreme Court overturned Roe.

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) chief of staff to lead the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Legal Policy.

Chino Hills, California, resident Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 64, was arrested on Thursday and charged with acting as an illegal agent of Beijing while influencing local elections.

More than 100 women who said they were abused and sexually assaulted at a California prison dubbed the “rape club” have been awarded nearly $116 million in a settlement agreement.

The Biden administration’s DOJ has come under scrutiny for using the FACE Act to target pro-life activists, accounting for nearly a quarter of all cases since the law’s inception in 1994.

Attorney General Merrick Garland finds himself in the congressional crosshairs as Republicans on Capitol Hill intensify investigations into his Department of Justice’s alleged coverup of a solar energy scandal centered around a plant based in Nevada called Crescent Dunes.

The Biden Department of Justice introduced two new gun control “rules” in December, framing the rules as an outworking of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), which Biden signed in 2022.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” host Joy Reid argued that there was “lawfare inside the Department of Justice” under President Joe Biden and there were “leave-behinds” from President Donald Trump’s first term. During an interview with Rep. Ayanna

Nearly 38,000 Chinese illegal aliens remain living across the United States despite having been ordered deported by a federal immigration judge, a new report details.

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Thursday revealed that more than two dozen confidential human sources (CHSs) were outside the Capitol building during the January 6 protests.

Jason Miller, a top aide to President-elect Donald Trump, delivered a real-time fact check of Anita Dunn, a longtime adviser to President Joe Biden, who claimed Biden’s DOJ was not weaponized against his political opponent.

Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday found that the Justice Department in 2017 secretly surveilled lawmakers, congressional staffers, and reporters.

President-elect Donald Trump nominated lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights with the Department of Justice.

On Friday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump Ranking Member Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) stated that the Task Force got cooperation from the Secret Service, but the Department of Justice and

Brian Thompson, the slain CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down on Wednesday while top executives at his company have reportedly been under investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for alleged insider trading and a monopoly.

There are potential downsides for the president and his family from the Hunter Biden pardon and an uncertain answer to how this power will be used in the future.

President Joe Biden refused to consult the DOJ’s Office of the Pardon Attorney before pardoning Hunter Biden.

A federal judge has paused an attempt by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to imprison Christian pro-life activists for up to ten years.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials who blew the whistle on the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) obstructing the investigation into Hunter Biden’s crimes in June 2023 have slammed President Joe Biden for pardoning his son.

President Joe Biden’s pardon of his criminal son, Hunter, is an “outrageous abuse of the rule of law” that has undermined trust in the justice system, according to Republican lawmakers, who accused the 82-year-old president of weaponizing law enforcement, decried the “two tiers of justice in Biden’s America,” and labeled his administration the “most lawless in history.”
