No president has done more to destroy public faith in our justice system than Joe Biden. Consider how his political appointees are going after everyday Americans for simply exercising their faith, while ignoring the vast Biden family criminal network and leaving whistleblowers vulnerable to retaliation.
In recent months, the Biden Department of Justice’s (DOJ) virulent prosecution of a devout Christian father of eleven for his participation in a peaceful life-affirming gathering at a Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, abortion facility resulted in a conviction that could lead to an 11-year prison sentence. The Biden DOJ went after Paul Vaughn and five co-defendants under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act ("FACE”), a 1994 law which prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services.
Vaughn is being represented by the Thomas More Society. Senior Counsel Steve Crampton said the DOJ falsely characterized Vaughn’s “peaceful actions as a felony ‘conspiracy against rights,’ to intimidate and punish Paul and other pro-life people and people of faith.”
Four remaining defendants are scheduled to subsequently stand trial for misdemeanor violations of the FACE Act. Crampton said his client is considering an appeal. Sentencing is scheduled for July.
“Persecution of Vaughn and his co-defendants clearly demonstrated the Biden Department of Justice’s forceful attempt to silence its ideological opponents,” Crampton said.
A video of the prayer event outside the clinic appears to be peaceful. In contrast, radicalized members of the unhinged Left engaged in illegal protests outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices, in clear violation of federal and state law. The Biden DOJ has not charged those protestors, only the peaceful Christians who prayed outside the abortion clinic.
Here are the peaceful pro-life advocates Joe Biden wants to put in prison for a decade for singing and praying at an abortion clinic to save babies.
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) January 31, 2024
They deserve a medal, not prison. pic.twitter.com/tFuj5hDVx1
There is only way to make sense of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s tolerance of one group’s protest while throwing the book at another group’s: Biden is targeting his political opponents.
Consider how the Biden DOJ has treated the IRS sounding the alarm on Biden family corruption. Their attorney, Empower Oversight’s Tristan Leavitt, recently sent a letter to Attorney General Garland demanding he “put a stop” to any retaliation against the IRS agents and eliminate conflicts of interest related to cases involving Hunter Biden. He also noted that the Biden DOJ attorneys acted “as if they are on the same side” of the case as Hunter.
“On issues related to the whistleblowers, Department attorneys and Hunter Biden’s attorneys are simply not adversarial in these cases,” Leavitt said.
According to the New York Post, Hunter’s defense attorney has repeatedly accused the whistleblowers of potential misconduct after they disclosed details about his client’s tax filings to Congress — an act protected by federal whistleblowing statutes.
“The Department’s behavior raises the prospect that the Department may fail to zealously defend the Government’s interests in this lawsuit, simply out of a desire to see critics of the President’s son punished,” Leavitt’s letter to Garland concluded.
The RNLA will host attorneys from Thomas More Society and Empower Oversight to discuss the weaponization of Biden’s Department of Justice this Friday, April 12, at 2:00 p.m. Register here today!