excalibur
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Just intolerable behavior.
Where's the Pope about this? Oh, he’s praising Mohammedanism.
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Where's the Pope about this? Oh, he’s praising Mohammedanism.
The Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden “withheld evidence” and approved “aggressive arrest tactics” when targeting pro-life defendants — and then slapped them with longer prison sentences than pro-abortion ones, according to an explosive internal review released Tuesday.
The DOJ revealed the stunning abuses in a nearly 900-page report after examining more than 700,000 records related to the Biden administration’s prosecutions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
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Emails show the task force, led by civil division trial attorney Sanjay Patel, worked closely with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Feminist Majority Foundation and the National Abortion Federation (NAF) Security Team to initiate investigations and “monitor” pro-life activists — sometimes for years — before requesting arrest warrants and filing charges.
In a Nov. 17, 2021, email, before the task force was launched, Patel had already praised NAF’s security director, Michelle Davidson, to colleagues as an “MVP” at “bringing incidents to my attention, often in real-time, which usually result in an investigation/prosecution.”
The task force director was not nearly as chummy with defense counsel for one of the first pro-lifers indicted for illegally blocking access to an abortion clinic after the Dobbs decision, writing in a Feb. 22, 2023, email that he didn’t “keep the kind of records” the lawyer requested about the total number of “prosecutions for vandalisms of pregnancy centers.”
That was false, the Trump DOJ review found, since he had already forwarded “substantially identical information” to NAF.
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Patel also prodded his team following a Planned Parenthood referral to pursue what looked “like a good felony FACE matter” involving pro-life activist Mark Houck, per an Oct. 18, 2021, email on the day that he shoved an employee for the abortion advocacy group who harassed his son.
More emails the following month point to Patel pushing for the indictment even as civil division attorneys expressed reservations — and did so again the following year in an Aug. 10, 2022, email that admitted there were still “litigation risks.”
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As a result of the lengthy review, the DOJ may also refer prosecutors or other employees currently facing internal misconduct probes for criminal prosecution or to bar associations or other authorities.
“Here, internal referrals have been made as required by the Justice Manual,” the report stated.
Patel was fired Monday, a source familiar with his exit told The Post. CBS News first reported on his departure along with three other federal prosecutors involved in FACE Act cases under Garland.
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The DOJ revealed the stunning abuses in a nearly 900-page report after examining more than 700,000 records related to the Biden administration’s prosecutions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
...
Emails show the task force, led by civil division trial attorney Sanjay Patel, worked closely with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Feminist Majority Foundation and the National Abortion Federation (NAF) Security Team to initiate investigations and “monitor” pro-life activists — sometimes for years — before requesting arrest warrants and filing charges.
In a Nov. 17, 2021, email, before the task force was launched, Patel had already praised NAF’s security director, Michelle Davidson, to colleagues as an “MVP” at “bringing incidents to my attention, often in real-time, which usually result in an investigation/prosecution.”
The task force director was not nearly as chummy with defense counsel for one of the first pro-lifers indicted for illegally blocking access to an abortion clinic after the Dobbs decision, writing in a Feb. 22, 2023, email that he didn’t “keep the kind of records” the lawyer requested about the total number of “prosecutions for vandalisms of pregnancy centers.”
That was false, the Trump DOJ review found, since he had already forwarded “substantially identical information” to NAF.
...
Patel also prodded his team following a Planned Parenthood referral to pursue what looked “like a good felony FACE matter” involving pro-life activist Mark Houck, per an Oct. 18, 2021, email on the day that he shoved an employee for the abortion advocacy group who harassed his son.
More emails the following month point to Patel pushing for the indictment even as civil division attorneys expressed reservations — and did so again the following year in an Aug. 10, 2022, email that admitted there were still “litigation risks.”
...
As a result of the lengthy review, the DOJ may also refer prosecutors or other employees currently facing internal misconduct probes for criminal prosecution or to bar associations or other authorities.
“Here, internal referrals have been made as required by the Justice Manual,” the report stated.
Patel was fired Monday, a source familiar with his exit told The Post. CBS News first reported on his departure along with three other federal prosecutors involved in FACE Act cases under Garland.
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Biden DOJ ‘weaponized’ federal law to prosecute pro-lifers — and give them longer prison sentences
Biden DOJ prosecutors on average sought 26.8 months in prison for pro-life defendants charged with non-violent crimes, compared with 12.3 months averaged for pro-abortion ones.
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