The lights were still on at the Justice Department when the receipts finally dropped — and brother, there are a lot of receipts.
Early Tuesday morning, Trump’s DOJ released a nearly 900-page report built from roughly 700,000 internal records, and what it describes isn’t just bureaucratic misconduct. It’s a coordinated campaign. Under Joe Biden, the Department of Justice turned the FACE Act — a 1994 law designed to protect abortion clinics, pregnancy centers, and churches equally — into a one-way weapon aimed squarely at pro-life Americans. The numbers don’t lie: 97 percent of all FACE Act cases since the law’s creation have been brought against pro-life advocates. Ninety-seven percent. That’s not enforcement. That’s a hunt.
The Abortion Lobby Had a Hotline to the DOJ
Here’s where it gets genuinely sinister. The report confirms that Biden’s DOJ, under Merrick Garland, resurrected a task force and partnered directly with the National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood, and the Feminist Majority Foundation to surveil pro-life activists. These groups weren’t just filing complaints. They were compiling dossiers — birthdates, home addresses, photos of minor children, driver’s license numbers — and handing them to federal prosecutors like a takeout menu.
The man at the center of it all? A Civil Rights Division trial attorney named Sanjay Patel, who ran the task force like it was his personal crusade. He called the NAF’s security director an “MVP” for flagging targets “often in real-time, which usually result in an investigation/prosecution.” He attended their conferences. He agreed to serve as a reference on their grant applications. And when defense attorneys asked him for data on FACE Act prosecutions, he told them to file a FOIA request — even though he’d already handed the same data to the abortion groups a year earlier.
Patel also dusted off a KKK-era statute — “conspiracy against rights” — and stapled it onto FACE Act charges to jack up prison sentences for peaceful pro-life demonstrators. A law written to stop hooded nightriders was repurposed to lock up grandmothers who pray outside clinics. You can’t make this stuff up.
Mocking the Faith, Rigging the Jury
The anti-Christian bias wasn’t just institutional — it was personal. In the Michigan case United States v. Zastrow, one federal prosecutor complained they “ended up with a very Catholic magistrate on duty.” Internal records show the trial team brainstorming ways to weed Christians off the jury, searching for “an indirect way to get some more info about religion without directly asking it.” They flagged Christian jurors for removal because of their faith.
And then there’s this gem: Assistant U.S. Attorney Sunita Doddamani described pro-life Christians as “culty” while drafting her rebuttal. Not in a bar after work. In official case preparation documents. Your tax dollars at work, folks.
The trial team even tried to ban defendants from wearing “Jesus buttons” in court. Imagine the howling if a prosecutor tried to ban a rainbow pin.
The Mark Houck Raid
Remember Mark Houck? The Christian father of seven arrested at gunpoint in front of his wife and kids over a shoving incident that local police had already declined to pursue? Sixteen armed FBI agents. Seven vehicles. A dawn raid. All because Planned Parenthood tipped off the feds and requested federal action, and Patel spent months lobbying his supervisors to bring charges.
Houck was found not guilty. Last week, he won a seven-figure settlement against the DOJ. And when the public rightly lost its mind over the paramilitary-style arrest, Patel blamed the FBI — a claim the report says internal communications don’t support. One prosecutor even had the gall to complain that Houck’s wife was “attempting to taint the public’s view of the arrest.” The nerve of a mother telling people what happened in her own living room.
The Numbers Tell the Story
Under Biden, prosecutors requested an average sentence of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants — more than double the 12.3 months sought for violent pro-abortion offenders. Meanwhile, despite a flood of firebombings and vandalism against pregnancy centers and churches after the Dobbs decision, Biden’s DOJ charged exactly five people. They didn’t pursue a single FACE Act case involving an attack on a house of worship. Not one. Even after U.S. senators specifically asked Garland to act.
“This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice,” Acting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said. “The weaponization that happened under the Biden Administration will not happen again, as we restore integrity to our prosecutorial system.”
Cleaning House
Trump didn’t tiptoe around this — he brought a bulldozer. His DOJ has pardoned more than 20 pro-life activists prosecuted under Biden, dismissed civil lawsuits, settled cases, and fired at least four prosecutors involved, including Patel. Going forward, abortion-related FACE Act charges require extraordinary circumstances.
Assistant Attorney General Daniel Burrows put it bluntly:
“The behavior unearthed in this report is shameful. Lawyers who should have known better withheld evidence, worked to keep committed religious people off juries, and generally allowed the Department of Justice to be used as the enforcement arm of pro-abortion special interests.”
So there it is. The DOJ wasn’t blind. It wasn’t negligent. It knew exactly what it was doing, who it was doing it for, and who it was doing it to. The only thing Biden’s Justice Department couldn’t see was the Constitution sitting right there on the shelf, gathering dust.