Sen. Hawley Grills AG Garland on Anti-Catholic Bias in the FBI, Raid on Pro-Life Family: ‘Give Me an Answer!'

Fox News ^ | 3/1/23 | Nikolas Lanum

[marshmallow]

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland over the FBI raid on a pro-life Christian man and asked whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) had an "anti-Catholic bias."

"Our department protects all religions, all ideologies. It does not have any bias against any religion of any kind," Garland said, fielding the question from Hawley during Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Hawley then characterized the DOJ as an agency quick to expend resources and intelligence to be deployed against Catholics while "turning a blind eye" as people are executed in the streets of American cities.

"Your answer frankly surprises me," Hawley added.

The Missouri senator then turned his attention to the story of Mark Houck.

In September, FBI agents arrested Houck in Kintnersville for allegedly violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a federal crime to use force with the intent to injure, intimidate and interfere with anyone because that person produces reproductive health care.

The arrest stemmed from Houck's alleged altercation with a Planned Parenthood escort in Philadelphia in October 2021. Houck was accused of pushing a 72-year-old man after the escort allegedly verbally harassed Houck's 12-year-old son outside the clinic.

Days after the arrest, Hawley sent a letter to Garland, accused him of turning a "local dispute into a national case," and criticized the FBI for executing the search warrant in "extreme a manner as one can imagine."

[Fido969]

Garland just goes back to his office and laughs.

[Fido969]

Garland just goes back to his office and laughs.

[BenLurkin]

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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4135752/posts

[Nextrush]

Garland went to Ukraine and laughed.

https://cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/merrick-garland-ukraine/index.html

[G Larry]

Neither Merrick Garland or Joe Biden is giving the orders here.

Neither has the wit.

I want to know who Obama has running this show besides Susan Rice & Valerie Jarrett?

[frank ballenger]

They have to handle Garland as he deserves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt15-Urzd88

I love the sounds of those persuasion incentives.

[Ann Archy]

Garland is PURE EVIL and ANTI-CHRISTIAN!

[MayflowerMadam]

“Garland just goes back to his office and laughs.”

Exactly. He’ll gladly sit in the hot seat and endure a few hours of slings and arrows for The Cause. The only thing that would make an impact, and maybe change behavior, is for these people to pay a price for their crimes with prison time and possibly execution. Forget monetary fines; that doesn’t hurt these people.

The hearings are entertaining and good theater for pols’ constituents, but they are USELESS in the long run.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Jacquerie]

Too many Freepers still believe we are a self-governing republic.

[Fido969]

Lefties have 3 avenues:

1. Narrative
2. Policy
3. Action.

These so-call right-wing bloviating red-meat throwing pols try to work up a narrative (The FBI is anti-Catholic!) but never get past that.

All a show.