The Department of Justice just terminated at least four prosecutors from the Civil Rights Division who spent the Biden years using the FACE Act like a cruise missile aimed at pro-life Americans. Among the fired: veteran DOJ lawyer Sanjay Patel, who apparently thought his job was to lock up grandmothers for the crime of standing on a sidewalk.
Turns out there are consequences for weaponizing federal law against people who pray. Who knew?
Let’s talk about what these prosecutors actually did, because the numbers are staggering. Under Biden’s DOJ, pro-life defendants charged under the FACE Act faced an average recommended sentence of 26.8 months. Pro-abortion offenders who committed actual violence against pregnancy centers? An average of 12.3 months.
Read that again. If you peacefully protested outside an abortion clinic, Biden’s prosecutors wanted you locked up for more than two years. If you firebombed a crisis pregnancy center, they’d ask for about a year. Maybe.
That’s not law enforcement. That’s political persecution with a government salary.
The case that tells you everything you need to know is Paula Harlow. She’s 75 years old. A grandmother. No criminal record. Her “crime” was participating in a peaceful protest at an abortion clinic. Nonviolent. First offense. Seventy-five years old.
She got 24 months in federal prison.
Twenty-four months. Two full years. For a first-time, nonviolent offense committed by a senior citizen. In the same country where actual violent criminals get released on cashless bail before the arresting officer finishes his paperwork.
(But remember — it’s the Republicans who are “weaponizing the justice system.” The TV told us so.)
Meanwhile, the summer of 2022 saw dozens of pro-abortion activists attack crisis pregnancy centers across the country after the Dobbs decision. Firebombings. Vandalism. Threats. The group Jane’s Revenge literally claimed credit for arson attacks and published communiqués that read like something out of a domestic terrorism manual.
How many of those people did Biden’s DOJ throw the book at? Take a wild guess.
The double standard wasn’t subtle. It wasn’t hidden. It was the entire point. Biden’s Civil Rights Division turned the FACE Act — a law that’s supposed to protect BOTH sides from violence and intimidation — into a one-way weapon aimed exclusively at pro-life Americans.
And the four prosecutors who ran that operation just got fired.
The terminations come as the DOJ’s weaponization working group finalizes its report on political bias in federal law enforcement. We don’t know everything that’s in that report yet, but based on what we already know — the sentencing disparities, the selective prosecution, the 75-year-old grandmother doing hard time — it’s going to be ugly.
This is what accountability looks like. Not a press conference. Not a sternly worded letter. Not a congressional hearing where everybody yells for three hours and nothing happens. Actual firings. Actual consequences. The people who used the federal justice system as a political weapon against American citizens lost their jobs.
Ouch.
Paula Harlow spent two years in a federal prison cell because she exercised her First Amendment rights outside an abortion clinic. The prosecutors who put her there are now updating their résumés. That’s not perfect justice — perfect justice would be charges against THEM — but it’s a start.
And to every pro-life American who watched the Biden DOJ come after people of faith with the full weight of the federal government: the people who did that to you just found out they’re not untouchable. The firings are done. The report is coming. And the adults are back in charge at the Justice Department.
