Earlier this week, the Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group published a report detailing the Biden administration's weaponization of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Based on a review of over 700,000 internal records, the report details specific ways the Biden Justice Department weaponized federal law and outlines the corrective action taken by the current Department of Justice (DOJ).
"The Biden DOJ pursued significantly harder sentences for pro-life defendants than violent pro-abortion defendants," wrote investigators. "The Biden DOJ requested an average sentence of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants compared to 12.3 months for pro-abortion defendants."
Investigators also determined that the Biden DOJ "closely collaborated with pro-abortion groups" to track pro-life activists' whereabouts and helped a pro-abortion group secure funding.
Talking about this on her radio program this week, Jenna Ellis called it another example of government actors that need to be held accountable.
"All of these attorneys involved in this, in my opinion, should be disbarred," said Ellis.
Gerard Filitti, senior counsel for The Lawfare Project, agreed, saying this is not how law should be applied.
"You're supposed to apply laws neutrally," he noted. "When you are recommending sentences that are harsher on one class of people, or when you're ignoring due process protections because you don't like who the defendants are, but you're not applying the same law to other parties, that's a major problem."
"That shows how far the DOJ became corrupted under the Biden administration," he added.
In the U.S., lawyers are governed by rules such as the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, adopted in some form by each state. Lawyers are not required to be neutral advocates, but if an attorney does not apply the law neutrally in a way that involves intentional misrepresentation, bad faith arguments, selective misuse of the law, or discriminatory conduct, that can lead to discipline ranging from reprimand to suspension to disbarment.
Disbarment typically requires serious or repeated misconduct
President Donald Trump has promised to end the weaponization of the federal government and is already taking action to rectify the previous administration's wrongs.
