Several Republican senators pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland about bias, with many questions explicitly addressing whether anti-Catholicism motivated recent actions by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.
“The DOJ has announced charges against 34 individuals for blocking access to or vandalizing abortion clinics,” said Sen. Mike Lee, R-UT. But there have been more than 81 reported attacks on pro-life groups, the senator pointed out, as well as 130 attacks on Catholic churches since May 2022. “And only two individuals have been charged” in connection with those pro-abortion attacks.”
“So how do you explain this disparity?” Lee asked Garland.
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