Texas Congressman Chip Roy (R) demanded Thursday that the FBI and Justice Department preserve all records of its prosecution of peaceful pro-life protesters under the FACE Act.
In a letter first shared with The Daily Wire, Roy called on FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland to take steps to keep all documentation of their Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) cases. The FACE Act is a Clinton-era law that makes it a federal crime to physically obstruct the entrance to an abortion facility.
Roy, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, has long called for the FACE Act to be repealed because of its disproportionate use against pro-lifers. He told Biden administration officials that he remained “concerned with the Biden-Harris Administration’s continued weaponization of the Freedom…