Why Has the DOJ Gone Wild?

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) is shouting “two tier justice” and “unequal justice” as he tries to increase awareness of the differences between the treatment of pro-life activists and the crimes committed by Left-supporting activists. According to Mary Margaret Olohan, Lee said the following in a statement to The Daily Signal this afternoon. 

“The Biden administration is using the FACE Act to give pro-life activists and senior citizens lengthy prison terms for non-violent offenses and protests – all while turning a blind eye to the violence, arson, and riots conducted on behalf of ‘approved’ leftist causes,” Lee told The Daily Signal in a Tuesday statement.

The senator added: “Unequal enforcement of the law is a violation of the law, and man and women who try to expose the horrors of abortion are being unjustly persecuted for their motivations.”

Lee made his statement after he learned that Lauren Handy has been sentenced to almost five years in prison for trying to save the lives of unborn babies at an abortion clinic. Olohan stated that Handy “is the first person sentenced for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a 1994 law.” This law is supposed to protect “both abortion clinics and pregnancy resource centers,” but Biden’s DOJ tends to “heavily” enforce the law against pro-lifers. Olohan included the following in her report.

The president’s critics have accused Biden and the DOJ of weaponizing the FACE Act against pro-lifers while failing to charge pro-abortion criminals for the hundreds of attacks on pregnancy resource centers since the May 2022 leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion indicating Roe would soon be overturned.

Some, among them Lee and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, have called for the repeal of the FACE Act.

“Today’s outrageous 57-month sentence for a progressive pro-life activist is a start reminder: Biden’s DOJ is fully weaponized against pro-life American citizens, and they are using the FACE Act to do it,” said Roy in a statement following Handy’s sentence. “House Republicans should defund the DOJ weaponization, repeal the FACE Act, and stand up for the freedoms that we campaign on.”

Handy’s attorneys at the Thomas More Society indicated that they will “proceed with an appeal seeking to overturn her conviction and challenge the constitutionality of the FACE Act.”