Thomas More Society head of litigation and Executive Vice President Peter Breen testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on the "weaponization" of the Biden administration's DOJ. (House Judiciary Comittee/Getty Images)
The hearing, titled, "Entering the Golden Age: Ending the Weaponization of the Justice Department," included testimonies from Chris Swecker, former FBI assistant director of the Criminal Investigations Unit, Jonathan Fahey, a legal partner at Holtzman Vogel, and Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor.
The Thomas More Society represented several of the 23 pro-life activists who were imprisoned during the 2020 demonstrations and urged Trump during his first few days in office to pardon them.
"They should not have been prosecuted," Trump said during the signing. "Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this."
Breen said the Trump administration's pardons sent a "powerful message."
"On behalf of our clients and the pro-life movement as whole, we are thankful to President Trump for his recent pardons and to the members of this House who supported that effort," he said. "Those pardons sent a powerful message to the country, and especially to the millions of Americans in the pro-life movement, that the federal government should not be weaponized against Americans because of their sincere beliefs in the sanctity of human life."
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People attend the annual March for Life rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 19, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
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House members and witnesses also spent much of the two-hour hearing discussing a Richmond FBI internal 2023 memo titled, "Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities."
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Jamie Joseph is a U.S. Politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering transgender and culture issues, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, and stateside legislative developments.
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