How many concerning actions by the Biden-Harris regime can you remember? There was the labeling of parents and traditional Catholics as “domestic terrorists”, pre-dawn raids on pro-lifers, weak prosecution of church burnings and attacks on pro-life centers, delayed the release of the Nashville shooter’s manifesto, and ignoring the persecution of Christians abroad.
And now we are finally finding out to what extent they were weaponizing government to persecute their political (and religious!) rivals.
Here’s the latest news from Daily Signal:
A left-wing activist group known for putting its political opponents on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan advised Justice Department prosecutors at a “hate crimes1 symposium,” newly unveiled documents show.
America First Legal obtained the documents via a Freedom of Information Act request and provided them first to The Daily Signal.
“All Americans should be shocked, appalled, and terrified that the Biden Justice Department was taking advice from a hate-filled, morally bankrupt organization like the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Ian Prior, senior counselor at America First Legal, told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “The SPLC’s agenda is anti-American to its core, and we must ensure that the SPLC never regains the power that it was so wrongly granted by the woke bureaucrats who ran this country until this past January.”
You might remember my blog post of a few days ago about how the SPLC labeled FOCUS ON THE FAMILY as a “hate group”. That’s not the only Christian group they’ve done that with, either. The Family Research Council was also on the SPLC hate map. The Family Research Council headquarters building was attacked by a gay activist in 2012, and the shooter cited SPLC’s hate map as inspiration, per The Daily Caller. The Alliance Defending Freedom, a presitigous religious liberty law firm, even says “The Southern Poverty Law Center’s labels have led to violence”. By the way, the SPLC labels groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom and Moms for Liberty as “extremist” or “hate” groups.
And this SPLC – DOJ symposium was not a one off:
The Justice Department repeatedly engaged with the SPLC during the Biden administration. DOJ staff seemed receptive to meeting with the SPLC shortly after the group put the parental rights group Moms for Liberty on the “hate map” in 2023. Clarke appears to have met with the SPLC in March 2023.
The FBI’s Richmond office cited the SPLC in its since-rescinded memo on “radical traditional Catholics.”
The Daily Signal also talked about Kristen Clarke, who I’ve blogged about before. Fortunately for Christians, Trump appointed someone much better than her when he took office. (Clarke admitted to not disclosing an 2006 arrest for domestic violence, as reported by NY Post).
Harmeet was talked about in the Daily Signal recently:
Harmeet Dhillon, who was selected by Trump in December to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, has been nearly the opposite of her Biden administration predecessor.
Former Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who led the civil rights office before Dhillon, was one of the most aggressive in weaponizing the DOJ against political opponents, especially pro-lifers.
Dhillon achieved some notoriety before being appointed to office. Her California law office took up a few high-profile cases in the last decade, including that of James Damore, the Google employee who said he was fired because he criticized the company’s diversity policies.
“While the Civil Rights Division prosecuted pro-lifers, Dhillon has represented pro-life journalist David Daleiden, who exposed Planned Parenthood staff who sold aborted-baby body parts,” my colleague Tyler O’Neil wrote in December.
Dhillon has not only stopped the persecution of pro-life activists but has initiated DOJ investigations into states that have endangered women while violating civil rights law, like California.
She announced in May that her department was investigating whether California is violating Title IX by allowing males to compete in women’s sports.
“Title IX exists to protect women and girls in education. It is perverse to allow males to compete against girls, invade their private spaces, and take their trophies,” Dhillon said in May. “This Division will aggressively defend women’s hard-fought rights to equal educational opportunities.”
She’s doing a great job. Conservatives should keep an eye on her, she would make a nice Attorney General in the next Republican administration. That’s who I would pick. I like her far more than Pam Bondi, the current Attorney General. She has more fighting spirit.
One thing for sure, it really shows the importance of Christians voting. And not just voting, but advocating for conservative policies with independent voters during the election campaign period.
