{"id":2531,"date":"2023-04-03T19:58:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2023-04-03T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:58:35","slug":"exclusive-lawmakers-move-to-defund-law-the-biden-doj-weaponized-against-pro-life-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2531","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers Move to Defund Law the Biden DOJ Weaponized Against Pro-Life Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" title=\"Pro-Life Father Arrested At Gunpoint By Biden DOJ Speaks Out\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uqEyt4IiUfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"Pro-Life Father Arrested At Gunpoint By Biden DOJ Speaks Out\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uqEyt4IiUfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>FIRST IN DAILY SIGNAL: Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy is leading lawmakers in calling for defunding the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/10\/26\/dojs-kristen-clarke-pro-abortion-activist-enforcing-law-pro-lifers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances<\/a>&nbsp;(FACE) Act, The Daily Signal has learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter sent to the drafters of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2024, lawmakers asked that language be included prohibiting \u201cfunding for the Department of Justice to enforce the FACE Act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roy drew on the DOJ arrest of Catholic father and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/02\/16\/exclusive-watch-mark-houcks-family-speak-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pro-life activist Mark Houck<\/a>, writing: \u201cLast September, the American people watched in horror as dozens of heavily armed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and more than a dozen vehicles conducted an early-morning raid, with guns drawn, on the home of Mark Houck, his wife, and seven children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSince then, Mark Houck has been found innocent of all charges, but Attorney General Merrick Garland has refused to admit that the overwhelming use of force against an innocent American citizen was a mistake,\u201d Roy wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-pdf-viewer-pdf wp-block-embed-pdf-viewer-pdf__content-wrapper aligncenter\"><object class=\"embed-pdf-viewer\" data=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Defund-Face-Act-Appropriations-Letter.pdf#scrollbar=1&amp;toolbar=1\" type=\"application\/pdf\" height=\"600\" width=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/object><iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load embed-pdf-viewer\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnakedpolitics.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F04%2FDefund-Face-Act-Appropriations-Letter.pdf&amp;embedded=true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"600\" width=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe class=\"embed-pdf-viewer\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnakedpolitics.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F04%2FDefund-Face-Act-Appropriations-Letter.pdf&amp;embedded=true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"600\" width=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is \u201cfar from the only example\u201d of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/03\/09\/biden-wants-to-increase-doj-civil-rights-division-budget-by-62-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden DOJ targeting<\/a>&nbsp;American citizens with the FACE Act, the congressman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn 2022, the FACE Act was used more than two dozen times against pro-life activists including Mark Houck, Father Fidelis Moscinski, Lauren Handy, Herb Geraghty, and a Holocaust survivor,\u201d he continued. \u201cPrior to this year, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/02\/22\/biden-doj-charges-eight-more-pro-life-activists-with-violating-face-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FACE Act had never<\/a>&nbsp;been used to indict individuals related to an attack on a pro-life pregnancy center or house of worship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Biden Administration has proven time and time again that it cannot be trusted to faithfully implement and enforce the FACE Act, as written by Congress,\u201d Roy wrote. \u201cUntil such a time, Congress ought to withhold the use of funds for enforcing this law and seriously consider repealing the statute in its entirety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signers include Jeff Duncan of South Carolina,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/tag\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daniel Webster of Florida<\/a>, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Eli Crane of Arizona, James Moylan of Guam, and Dan Bishop of North Carolina. Pro-life groups, including Catholic Vote, Students for Life Action, and Live Action, support the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Roy noted, the DOJ charged at least 26 pro-life individuals in 2022 with violations of the FACE Act\u2014though the legislation protects both pro-life pregnancy centers and abortion clinics. No far-left attackers were charged with the FACE Act in 2022, and as of Monday, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/03\/29\/doj-indicts-two-more-far-left-radicals-for-targeting-pregnancy-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOJ has charged<\/a>&nbsp;only four people with FACE Act violations in 2023 for attacking Florida pro-life pregnancy centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/catholicvote.org\/pregnancy-center-attack-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\">83 pro-life groups<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/catholicvote.org\/tracker-church-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\">144 churches<\/a>&nbsp;have been attacked since the May leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade would be overturned, according to Catholic Vote trackers. Vandals often tagged these buildings&nbsp;with threats such as \u201cIf abortions aren\u2019t safe, neither are you,\u201d making the attacks incidents of suspected&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/10\/11\/firebombed-wisconsin-pro-life-center-has-not-heard-from-fbi-since-may\/\" target=\"_blank\">pro-abortion violence<\/a>&nbsp;that federal authorities have been slow to investigate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/04\/03\/exclusive-lawmakers-call-defund-face-act\/\">https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/04\/03\/exclusive-lawmakers-call-defund-face-act\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST IN DAILY SIGNAL: Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy is leading lawmakers in calling for defunding the&nbsp;Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances&nbsp;(FACE) Act, The Daily Signal has learned. In a letter sent to the drafters of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2024, lawmakers asked that language be included prohibiting \u201cfunding for the Department of Justice to enforce the FACE Act.\u201d Roy drew on the DOJ arrest of Catholic father and&nbsp;pro-life activist Mark Houck, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}