A Great Victory

In contrast to the barbarism of Minnesota liberals, there was a great victory yesterday for a persecuted pro-life family and, by extension, a victory for all of us who care about rule of law. 

In the wake of Roe v. Wade’s demise, the pro-abortion Biden Administration began aggressively targeting pro-life activists. One is Mark Houck, a Catholic father of seven children. 

Houck had a minor altercation with a volunteer abortion clinic escort in October 2021. The escort was harassing Houck’s 12 year-old son, and Houck pushed him away twice. Local authorities refused to press charges against Houck because nothing happened.

But the Biden FBI raided the family’s home a year later and threatened to lock him up for 11 years. Houck wasn’t an accused bank robber. He wasn’t an accused terrorist plotting to overthrow the government. He didn’t cheat thousands of investors out of billions of dollars. 

He got into a shoving match with a pro-abortion advocate on a sidewalk near an abortion clinic. For that, the FBI sent 15 agents to his home to scare his family and, more importantly, to scare all of us.

This was an overt act of intimidation. Thankfully a jury of his peers found him not guilty on all charges. 

Even though this case turned out the right way, the fact that the case was pursued at all is evidence that the Biden Administration has weaponized federal law enforcement against conservatives, and particularly values voters, hoping to demoralize us.

But that’s not the only way the Biden Administration is trying to intimidate its opponents. By inaction and omission, they continue to allow militant leftists to disrupt the neighborhoods and homes of conservative Supreme Court justices, including Justice Amy Coney Barrett.  

President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland and left-wing local officials are refusing to enforce federal and state laws that prohibit demonstrations outside the homes of judges. 

The law has an obvious purpose – to prevent the intimidation of the judiciary, which is exactly what the Biden Administration is encouraging.

Here’s an idea: Perhaps the conservative justices should approach their liberal colleagues on the high court and show them the laws that are being ignored. Then they could recommend that the justices issue a joint statement insisting that the executive branch fulfill its constitutional obligations to enforce the law so the justices don’t have to worry about radical activists threatening their homes, and even their lives.

It would be a powerful statement highlighting the left’s double standard of justice.