Trump pardons peaceful pro-life activists targeted by Biden DOJ

From The Blaze.com (Jan. 23):

On the eve of the 52nd annual March for Life demonstration on the National Mall, President Donald Trump issued pardons for 23 pro-life protesters whom the Biden Department of Justice worked strenuously to lock away.

"They should not have been prosecuted," said Trump. "Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this."

The president added that the fact some were still languishing in prison was "ridiculous."

Those who received pardons were apparently all convicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which Texas Rep. Chip Roy (R) and other Republicans have long sought to repeal.

Roy told Blaze News in advance of the pardons that it was "tremendous news" that Trump was set to "pardon the brave pro-life Americans who were unjustly targeted by Biden's weaponized DOJ. These Americans are peaceful, pro-life Americans who were singled out and targeted by their government solely because of their beliefs."

The pardons — which were urged by the Thomas More Society and Republican lawmakers, including Roy, Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (Fla.) — amount to another promise kept by the president, who suggested in a June 22 speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition that he would pardon peaceful pro-life activists such as Paulette Harlow, who was sentenced to two years in prison by a Clinton-appointed judge despite suffering from a debilitating medical condition.

Trump vowed that upon taking office, he would "rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who's unjustly victimized by the Biden regime, including Paulette, so we can get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong."

The FACE Act, ratified by President Bill Clinton in 1994, was supposed to protect access to churches and abortion facilities alike but ended up weaponized by the Biden Department of Justice to lock up peaceful pro-life protesters — protesters like Jean Marshall, 74; Joan Bell, 76; John Hinshaw, 69; Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising director of activism Lauren Handy; and concentration camp survivor Eva Edl.

The FACE Act law has almost exclusively been used in recent years against pro-life activists, even when the nation saw a massive uptick in attacks by abortion radicals on churches and pro-life pregnancy centers following the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. [read more]

Good! It's about time. They should never haven been arrested just for expressing their First Amendment right. Definitely persecuted by the Briben regime.