President Trump signs pardons for Jan. 6 defendants in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2025. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
Trump indicated several times during his campaign that he is open to issuing pardons for some of these pro-lifers who were prosecuted under a federal law called the Freedom of Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The activists were convicted of FACE Act violations for participating in various "sit-in" protests inside abortion clinics in Washington, D.C., Nashville, Detroit, Long Island and Manhattan.
According to the Thomas More Society, Biden’s Department of Justice used the FACE Act to increase sentences for crimes that would otherwise have been simple trespassing charges. The group says Biden sought to make examples of these pro-lifers, prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law, despite their sit-in protests inside abortion clinics being entirely peaceful and with no threat of violence or intimidation.
Now that Trump is back in the White House, the Thomas More Society believes he can restore justice for these 21 activists and, in so doing, help restore confidence and trust in the justice system among the American people.
"In my lifetime, I've never seen a president honor his campaign promises the way this president has," said Crampton. "So, we're very hopeful that he will do so again in this case. And for these people who are really just salt of the earth, the best kind of folks that ought to be in their communities doing good rather than behind bars."
TRUMP PARDONS NEARLY EVERY JAN 6 DEFENDANT BUT SAYS HE'S JUST GETTING STARTED
Anti-abortion demonstrators in front of the Supreme Court building, on the day justices heard arguments in the Mississippi abortion rights case, in Washington, Dec. 1, 2021. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
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"Down is up and up is down in this case," said Crampton. "These people are folks who, some of them, have adopted several special-needs children from places like Ukraine. Some are missionaries to China and Ukraine and the worst places on the planet, going out of their way to do good to people that are in desperate need. These are folks that ought to be receiving those citizenship medals that President Biden is handing out to the likes of George Soros, who is trying to destroy our nation."
"We must restore the rule of law," he went on. "The questioning of Mr. Trump's Cabinet appointees this past week, ironically enough, from the left, points again and again, back to the need not to single out political opponents for prosecution and so forth."
"We have recently undertaken a disrespect for the rule of law that has undermined any respect for authority in general, let alone the law in particular," he said. "So, I really think that this also is a small step back to restoring that absolutely essential respect for the rule of law that we must have if America is to survive."
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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