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Department of Justice
An egregious example of the need for such a review is provided by the department’s use of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act® to harass pro-life demonstrators while not pursuing similar investigations of shocking acts of violence committed against pro-life pregnancy resource centers. On the morning of September 23, 2022, pro-life activist Mark Houck was arrested by more than 15 FBI agents at his home in Pennsylvania in front of his wife and small children. Agents came to his door with guns drawn to arrest the 48-year-old father of seven whose alleged crime involved a minor altercation with an activist who was harassing one of his children in front of an abortion clinic almost one year before Mr. Houck’s arrest by the FBI.*° Similarly, Paul Vaughn, a 55-year-old father of 11, was arrested at his home in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, by armed FBI agents for allegedly participating in a peaceful protest at an abortion clinic one year earlier.*”
These arrests stand in stark contrast to the department’s virtual silence on the wave of vandalism and violence directed at religiously affiliated institutions, including pregnancy resource centers, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.** The Catholic News Agency reported more than one hundred such incidents as of September 2022.°°
By engaging in disparate and viewpoint-based enforcement of an already controversial law like the FACE Act against pro-life activists, the DOJ has needlessly undermined its credibility with law-abiding people of faith. The department should make every effort to uphold equal protection of the law and avoid politically motivated and viewpoint-based prosecutions. Specifically, it should:
• Ensure that its review extends beyond ending the absurd double standards embodied in the ongoing campaign of FACE Act prosecutions and instead be a thorough and holistic review of all DOJ activities, including all consent degrees and settlement agreements currently in force.
• Seek to terminate any unnecessary or outdated consent decree to which the United States is a party.
• Consider pursuing intervention in other matters where consent decrees or settlement agreements continue to bind parties years or
decades after the fact.
• Asits review concludes, and consistent with applicable law, take appropriate action in all cases, including those on appeal.
• Enact policies and regulations that prohibit settlement payments to third parties.