{"id":7979,"date":"2025-02-06T00:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T00:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2025-02-06T00:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T00:59:02","slug":"trump-signs-controversial-order-addressing-political-prosecutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/trump-signs-controversial-order-addressing-political-prosecutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs controversial order addressing political prosecutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donald Trump, who was sworn in as the president of the United States of America for the second time, has signed a plethora of executive orders. , However, many of them caused a stir among the public.\n\n\n\n

Among the rest, he pardoned nearly dozen pro-life activists who were convicted for violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and \u201cConspiracy Against Rights.\u201d\n\n\n\n

He did not reveal the names, but referred to them as to \u201cpeaceful protesters.\u201d\"Ezoic\"\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwenty-three people were prosecuted who should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted,\u201d the president said. \u201cThis is a great honor to sign this.\u201d\n\n\n\n

Issuing pardons to these pro-life activists was a promise Trump made during the presidential campaign.\n\n\n\n

As per the Thomas More Society, the pardons were signed on the day before the March for Life to be held in Washington, D.C.\"Ezoic\"\n\n\n\n

In the letter in which they asked for the pardons, they referred to their clients as to victims of the \u201cweaponization of the Justice Department by the Biden Administration.\u201d \n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile Biden\u2019s prosecutors almost entirely ignored the firebombing and vandalism of hundreds of pro-life churches and pregnancy centers, they viciously pursued pro-life Americans,\u201d the lawyers wrote.\u00a0\n\n\n\n

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In a statement, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America said,\u201dWe thank President Trump for immediately delivering on his promise to free pro-life protesters who [were] targeted and imprisoned by [President Joe] Biden\u2019s Department of Justice. Pro-life moms, grandmothers and even Eva Edl, a Communist prison camp survivor, were thrown in jail for peacefully protesting abortion.\u201d\n\n\n\n

The statement continued: \u201cAs if that were not enough, aggressive sentences were handed down, like five years for Lauren Handy who sought to expose evidence of late-term and potentially illegal abortions in the nation\u2019s capital.\u201d\n\n\n\n

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While those in support of Trump\u2019s decision to issue the pardons praised his decision, critics saw it as a controversial use of presidential power.\n\n\n\n

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