{"id":49502,"date":"2023-03-03T10:36:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49502"},"modified":"2023-03-03T10:36:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:36:32","slug":"forced-to-face-the-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49502","title":{"rendered":"Forced To Face The Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, The New York Post<\/a> posted an article about the appearance of Attorney General Merrick Garland before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. A number of Republican Senators used the appearance to point out how unevenly Merrick Garland’s Justice Department is enforcing various laws.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) excoriated the attorney general\u2019s extraordinary inaction over the past 10 months as pro-abortion protesters have harassed Supreme Court justices at their homes<\/a> in the wake of the leaked Dobbs decision, despite a federal law that bans \u201cpicketing or parading\u201d near a judge\u2019s residence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen rioters descended on the homes of six Supreme Court justices, night after night after night, you did nothing,\u201d raged Cruz.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe department did nothing when extremist groups, like Ruth Sent Us and Jane\u2019s Revenge, openly organized campaigns of harassment at the homes of justices \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the same groups posted online information about where the justices worship, or their home addresses, or where their kids went to school, you again sat on your hands and did nothing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) pointed out the following:<\/p>\n

Next, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) grilled Garland about the disparate treatment of Christian pro-life activists arrested outside abortion clinics compared to pro-abortion activists who have gone unpunished after firebombing pregnancy centers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He cited the case of Mark Houck, the Catholic father of seven acquitted in January of federal assault charges over an altercation outside a Philadelphia abortion clinic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Houck was arrested at gunpoint in front of his terrified family in an FBI raid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a case where a Catholic pro-life demonstrator, a father, was accused of disorderly conduct in front of an abortion center,\u201d Hawley said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Philadelphia DA, who is a Democrat, very progressive, declined to prosecute. There was a private suit that got dismissed. Then after all that, your Justice Department sent between 20 and 30 agents in the early-morning hours to the Houck residence to arrest this guy after he had offered to turn himself in voluntarily.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garland said the FBI \u201cdis\u00adagreed\u201d with that description of the raid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So Hawley got out an easel and displayed a blown-up photo of fearsome-looking FBI agents with long guns, ballistic shields and bulletproof vests.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no excuse for this sort of behavior by the Justice Department. If we do not elect people who will uphold the law and who will appoint people who will uphold the law, we will descend into tyranny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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