Trump Pardons Peaceful Pro-Life Activists Targeted by Biden DOJ – EVOL

On the eve of the 52nd annual March for Life demonstration on the National Mall, President Donald Trump issued pardons for 23 pro-life protesters whom the Biden Department of Justice worked strenuously to lock away.

“They should not have been prosecuted,” said Trump. “Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this.”

The president added that the fact some were still languishing in prison was “ridiculous.”

Those who received pardons were apparently all convicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which Texas Rep. Chip Roy (R) and other Republicans have long sought to repeal.

Roy told Blaze News in advance of the pardons that it was “tremendous news” that Trump was set to “pardon the brave pro-life Americans who were unjustly targeted by Biden’s weaponized DOJ. These Americans are peaceful, pro-life Americans who were singled out and targeted by their government solely because of their beliefs.”

The pardons — which were urged by the Thomas More Society and Republican lawmakers, including Roy, Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (Fla.) — amount to another promise kept by the president, who suggested in a

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