Department of Justice (DOJ) News
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Amid DOJ Failure to Enforce Law, Supreme Court Requests More Help
The United States Supreme Court has asked Congress to increase funding to help protect the Supreme Court justices. The court’s budget request asks for $5,897,000 for the “expansion of protective activities” and a separate increase of $585,000 for new IT security positions in “cybersecurity, software development, and network engineering.” “This request would expand security activities… -
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Biden Wants to Increase DOJ Civil Rights Division Budget by $62 Million
President Joe Biden’s proposed 2024 budget calls for investing huge sums of money into the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division—the same division disproportionately targeting pro-life activists with Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act charges as a response to the overturn of Roe v. Wade. The proposed budget increase is framed as reinvigorating federal civil… -
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Garland Suggests Justice Department Can’t Arrest Pro-Abortion Vandals Because They Firebomb Pregnancy Centers at Night
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday offered a reason why the Department of Justice prosecutes pro-life protesters at abortion centers more than pro-abortion vandals who targeted pro-life pregnancy resource centers after the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade last May. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, asked Garland about the case of… -
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Garland Claims He Doesn’t Know If His Justice Department Charged Protesters Who Targeted Supreme Court Justices’ Homes
Attorney General Merrick Garland told Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, that he does not know whether the Department of Justice has brought any charges against protesters under the law banning “picketing or parading” outside a courthouse or judge’s home with the intent to interfere with a case. Lee asked Garland about the protests during a Senate… -
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DOJ Tried to Keep This Secret, but Judge Orders Disclosure of Documents
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger scored a victory over the Biden Justice Department when a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the law enforcement agency has to turn over secret communications with liberal interest groups targeting Georgia’s new election reform law. In 2021, the Georgia Legislature passed and Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed into… -
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DOJ Charges 8 More Pro-Lifers With Violating FACE Act
The Department of Justice has charged eight more pro-life activists with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The latest charges stem from a August 2020 incident where pro-life activists Calvin Zastrow, Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Caroline Davis, Joel Curry, Justin Phillips, Eva Edl, and Eva Zastrow allegedly blockaded the entrance to a… -
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Cleared From DOJ Charges, Mark Houck and His Family Return to Abortion Clinic to Pray
Catholic father and pro-life activist Mark Houck, cleared of the Justice Department's charges against him, returned Thursday to pray at a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood. This time, he brought his whole family. "We went because this is what we do," Houck told The Daily Signal on Thursday morning. "It’s our mission to stand up for women,… -
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Catholic Dad Prosecuted by Biden DOJ, Victim of ‘Radical Left’s Abuse of Power,’ to Attend State of the Union
Catholic pro-life activist and former Biden Department of Justice target Mark Houck will attend the State of the Union as Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry’s guest on Tuesday night, Houck shared with The Daily Signal on Monday. “Mark Houck and his family are innocent victims of the radical Left’s reprehensible abuse of power, which systematically… -
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Justice Department Searches Biden’s Beach House for Classified Docs, Attorney Confirms
The U.S. Department of Justice is searching President Joe Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday amid the news that Biden kept classified documents from his time as vice president to President Barack Obama, according to a statement from the president’s personal attorney. “Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is… -
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NOT GUILTY: Jury Clears Catholic Father Targeted by Biden DOJ
A jury has found Mark Houck not guilty of federal charges brought against him by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. The DOJ had charged Houck with two counts of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act when, outside a Pennsylvania abortion clinic, Houck allegedly pushed a pro-abortion activist who was allegedly… -
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‘Asleep at the Wheel’: DeSantis Highlights Justice Department’s Abortion Double Standard
It’s no secret that the Biden Justice Department appears to be highly politicized—and now Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is underscoring that. Asked Thursday about the indictment this week of two pro-abortion activists in Florida on charges of spray-painting threats on the exterior of a pregnancy resource center, DeSantis said he was “surprised” the case had… -
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Hogan’s Office ‘Surprised,’ ‘Disappointed’ by Lack of DOJ ‘Urgency’ in Protecting Justices
The governors of both Maryland and Virginia begged the Department of Justice in May to enforce a federal law protecting Supreme Court justices from the far-left activists protesting over abortion. The DOJ did not fully respond to the request until June 8—the same day that authorities arrested Nicholas Roske and charged him with attempting to kill Justice… -
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DOJ Indicts Radical Activists for Attacking Florida Pro-Life Facilities
Following attacks on over 78 pro-life groups across the nation, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has finally indicted two pro-abortion activists for attacking pro-life facilities in Florida. Twenty-seven-year-old Caleb Freestone and 23-year-old Amber Smith-Stewart “targeted pregnancy resource facilities and vandalized those facilities with spray-painted threats,” according to the DOJ. The threatening language that the two… -
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Biden DOJ Behind Failure to Arrest Activists Illegally Protesting at Justices’ Homes, Experts Say
Authorities who allow activists to protest at the homes of the Supreme Court justices in violation of 18 U.S. Code 1507 are doing the bidding of President Joe Biden's Justice Department, legal and judicial experts told The Daily Signal. "The U.S. marshals report to the attorney general," Judicial Crisis Network President Carrie Severino said. "If… -
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Mark Houck Lawyers Produce Bombshell Evidence Against DOJ Case
Congress purposefully excluded abortion clinic escorts from Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act protections, attorneys for pro-life father Mark Houck argued in a pretrial hearing Tuesday. Former Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, who died in 2009, was the chief sponsor of the Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Thomas More Society documents filed… -
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Court Could Force Justice Department to Release Documents on Biden Voter-Registration Executive Order
A federal court in Florida is considering compelling the Justice Department to reveal more about President Joe Biden’s executive order on promoting voter registration after a mediation hearing this past Thursday. Agencies in the Biden administration have mostly ignored information requests from members of Congress, the media, and watchdog groups about a March 2021 Biden… -
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Rep. Jim Banks on Politicization of DOJ: Bidens, Top Dems Play by ‘Different Set of Rules’
Classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president were found Nov. 2, six days before the midterm elections, in Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington. The Biden administration didn’t announce the discovery, which was reported first Monday by CBS News. Biden commented briefly Tuesday, saying he was “surprised to learn… -
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Biden Justice Department Dishonestly Rewrites Law Against Sending Abortion Drugs by Mail
The Biden administration keeps coming up with new tactics to keep abortions happening. The latest is Justice Department advice to the U.S. Postal Service that a federal law prohibiting using the mail to send abortion drugs doesn’t mean what it says. By overruling its decisions inventing a constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court held… -
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DOJ Charges 2 More Pro-Life Women With FACE Act Violations
The Justice Department announced Friday it is charging two more pro-life women with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Bevelyn Beatty Williams, 31, and Edmee Chavannes, 41, are accused of trying to stop abortions from taking place, thereby violating the FACE Act in what the DOJ described as “a multi-year… -
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Biden’s Justice Department Sues Arizona and Gov. Doug Ducey for Building a Border Wall
President Joe Biden’s Justice Department is suing the state of Arizona over Gov. Doug Ducey’s border wall built with shipping containers. Ducey, a Republican, has built a makeshift border wall with double-stacked shipping containers topped with razor wire along sections of Arizona’s border with Mexico in Yuma and Cochise Counties. The federal government is calling the…