Republicans are playing the victim once again – and allowing violent actors to evade the law in the process.

President Donald Trump’s administration has decided that some activists who used violence and threats to keep patients from accessing abortion clinics were treated unfairly by former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, according to a new report from the Justice Department.

Under Biden, the report says, the DOJ unfairly enforced the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act against anti-abortion protesters. Before releasing the report April 14, the Trump administration fired three lawyers within the department who worked on these cases, according to The New York Times.

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The 1994 FACE Act is intended to keep people safe while entering a reproductive health clinic or place of worship, but the Trump administration decided it was too heavy-handed in its punishment of anti-abortion protesters.

The DOJ report states that former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland went after pro-life groups who had broken the law far more than they went after abortion activists who protested outside pregnancy care centers, which are religious organizations fronting as........

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