We always knew Merrick Garland’s DOJ had a thing for going after grandmas who pray outside abortion clinics. But it turns out the operation was even sleazier than we thought. A brand-new 882-page report from the DOJ Weaponization Working Group — built on over 700,000 internal records — just revealed that the Biden DOJ didn’t just target pro-life activists on their own. They outsourced the job to abortion-rights groups like the National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood, and the Feminist Majority Foundation.
So the government literally deputized the opposing team to build the case files. That’s not law enforcement. That’s hiring the other side’s hitmen and giving them a government email address.
Here’s how the racket worked. A DOJ trial attorney named Sanjay Patel — the guy running the whole FACE Act task force — was trading buddy-buddy emails with the National Abortion Federation’s security director, Michelle Davidson. He called abortion-rights groups his “MVP” and “wonderful contact.” Meanwhile, he referred to the Thomas More Society, which defends pro-life activists, as “quite the racket.”
Your tax dollars at work, folks.
The NAF sent Patel a 137-page memo stuffed with “dossiers” on individual pro-life activists. Dossiers. Like they were tracking enemy combatants. And Patel ate it up. He even offered NAF a grant application reference — without his supervisor’s approval — because apparently the DOJ was running a customer loyalty program for abortion groups.
Two years later, Davidson came back asking for an “impact statement, on DOJ letterhead.” Because once you’ve turned the Justice Department into your personal enforcement arm, why not ask for a letter of recommendation too?
The numbers tell the whole disgusting story. The Biden DOJ prosecuted 45-plus defendants in over 20 FACE Act cases targeting pro-lifers. How many cases did they bring against the people firebombing pro-life pregnancy centers? Five. And only three of those were tied to Jane’s Revenge — the militant group that literally declared war on crisis pregnancy centers after the Dobbs decision.
But wait — the sentencing disparity is even worse. For attacks on pro-life centers, the DOJ asked for an average of 12.3 months. The actual sentences? Three months. For nonviolent pro-life defendants — people whose crime was praying too close to a building — the DOJ sought sentences more than twice as long. And the actual sentences handed down were nearly five times longer than what the firebombers got.
Read that again. Peaceful protesters got punished five times harder than actual domestic terrorists.
Remember Mark Houck? The pro-life dad the FBI arrested at gunpoint in front of his kids? A Philadelphia jury acquitted him because the charges were garbage. But Garland’s DOJ didn’t care about winning cases. They cared about sending a message: cross the abortion lobby and we’ll send armed agents to your front door at dawn.
And here’s a detail that tells you everything about Patel’s priorities. Just ten days after the Houck arrest, Patel wrote internally that he had “a very strong interest in charging a Jane’s Revenge subject.” Why? He said he “definitely need to keep this bc it may be the first FACE case we bring with a pro-life victim.” Translation: he needed one token case against the other side so the whole operation didn’t look completely one-sided.
(Spoiler: it was completely one-sided.)
They even unsealed a Jane’s Revenge indictment on the first day of Houck’s trial. Coincidence? Sure. And Garland is just a regular, nonpartisan public servant who definitely doesn’t look like a guy who audits churches for fun.
The Feminist Majority Foundation’s Kathy Spillar called the whole report “laughable” and a “political statement.” Of course she did. When you’ve been running a government-backed surveillance operation against your political enemies, you don’t exactly welcome the audit.
President Trump has already pardoned three of the FACE Act defendants and signed an executive order targeting anti-Christian bias in federal agencies. AG Pam Bondi issued a memo on restoring the DOJ’s “integrity and credibility” — which, given what we now know, is roughly the equivalent of hosing out a dumpster and calling it a kitchen renovation.
And Sanjay Patel? The task force director who turned abortion groups into his own private intelligence network? Fired on Monday.
Good riddance. Now do the rest of them.