FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The Department of Justice must comply with lawmakers’ requests for data on how it is prosecuting Americans under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, Congressman Chip Roy said in a letter sent Friday.
The Texas Republican, who has introduced legislation that would repeal the FACE Act, called on the DOJ in October 2022 to disclose FACE Act prosecution data, but the DOJ did not release this data. During a December hearing, DOJ’s Kristen Clarke told Roy that she would ensure that he received the requested data, and yet the DOJ has still not released the data in question.
Roy, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, warned that “DOJ’s failure to produce FACE Act prosecution data is particularly troubling in light of the apparent disparity between prosecutions targeting…
