The Justice Department has released a sweeping report alleging that the Biden administration's DOJ worked hand-in-glove with abortion-rights organizations to build personal dossiers on pro-life Christian activists, files that included home addresses, travel plans, photos of spouses and minor children, and drivers' license numbers, then used that information to monitor and prosecute them under federal law.

The findings, laid out in a document titled "The 2026 Report by the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias," run more than 200 pages and draw on roughly 700,000 internal DOJ records. The report was compiled under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump and describes what it calls a systematic effort by former Attorney General Merrick Garland's Justice Department to turn the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act into a weapon aimed squarely at people of faith.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche framed the findings in blunt terms, as Fox News Digital reported:

"This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice. No Department should conduct selective prosecution based on beliefs. The weaponization that happened under the Biden Administration will not happen again, as we restore integrity to our prosecutorial system."

Inside the dossiers

The report paints a picture of a federal task force that functioned less like a law-enforcement body and more like a clearinghouse for opposition research supplied by outside advocacy groups. The National Task Force on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers, revived under Garland, allegedly maintained direct lines of communication with the National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Feminist Majority Foundation.

Civil Rights Division attorney Sanjay Patel, identified by name in the report, regularly communicated with those groups regarding FACE Act investigations of pro-life activists, Just The News reported. Patel allegedly shared internal department information with the organizations and received activist dossiers containing addresses, photographs of spouses and minor children, travel plans, and drivers' license numbers.

The National Abortion Federation's security team earned a telling distinction. The task force reportedly dubbed it the "MVP", a designation that speaks volumes about which outside players held sway over federal prosecutors.

Protests were flagged for the Justice Department "often in real-time, which usually result[ed] in an investigation/prosecution," the report stated. The FBI itself warned the Justice Department that pro-choice groups were tracking pro-life activists engaged in "1st Amendment protected activity." That warning, apparently, did not slow the machinery.

In one case detailed in the report, a pro-choice group sent the task force and the FBI a 137-page memorandum in 2021 that laid out a pro-life conference in granular detail, the event schedule, lodging information, and dossiers on numerous "anti-choice individuals." Many of the people named in those dossiers were later prosecuted by the Justice Department.

A pattern of selective enforcement

The scale of the disparity is hard to ignore. Biden's DOJ charged more than 45 pro-life defendants in over 20 FACE Act cases during his term, a significant increase over prior administrations, Breitbart reported, citing the same underlying DOJ findings. Meanwhile, the department was far slower to act on attacks against pro-life pregnancy resource centers, the very facilities firebombed and vandalized in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision.

The report describes one case in which a female pro-life activist was investigated across multiple jurisdictions until a single U.S. Attorney's Office finally brought charges. After her conviction and what the report called a "lengthy sentence," the advocacy groups that had flagged her stopped complaining. The task force's own language is revealing: "The Biden DOJ investigated this woman's conduct around the country until one of the United States Attorney's Offices brought charges. After her conviction and lengthy sentence, the NGOs stopped complaining about her."

That passage alone should trouble anyone who believes federal prosecutorial power ought to be exercised on the merits of a case, not at the behest of outside interest groups with a political agenda. The broader pattern of DOJ accountability investigations under the current administration has exposed similar dynamics across multiple agencies.

Withheld evidence and jury manipulation

The allegations extend beyond surveillance and selective prosecution. Internal communications reviewed for the report allegedly showed prosecutors withheld relevant FACE Act prosecution data from defense attorneys while sharing similar information internally and with abortion-rights groups, the Washington Examiner reported. The report also alleged prosecutors sought to exclude jurors based on religious beliefs, a move that, if substantiated, would represent a direct assault on the constitutional rights of defendants.

Withholding exculpatory or relevant evidence from the defense is a serious Brady violation concern. Striking jurors for their faith raises Batson-style constitutional questions. These are not minor procedural quibbles. They go to the heart of whether the Biden DOJ ran fair trials or rigged the process against people it had already decided to convict.

The report comes just weeks after the Justice Department published a separate 800-page report revealing 700,000 internal records from the Biden administration that showed how the SAVE Act was used against conservative activists, a parallel finding that reinforces the picture of a department that treated political orientation as a factor in enforcement decisions.

The broader pattern

The task force report's own summary is direct. "The Biden Administration's policies regularly clashed with a Christian worldview and burdened traditional religious practices," it stated. "These conflicts frequently arose over abortion, gender ideology, and sexual orientation. Ultimately, the Biden Administration penalized Christians who lived in accordance with their beliefs."

Penny Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America, called the findings an "insidious revelation":

"And it's an insidious revelation that the Biden Administration was working so intimately with abortion providers to persecute pro-life Americans. No American should be subjected to the kind of partisan, politically motivated attacks pro-lifers have had to face, prosecution and imprisonment, for their freedom of speech."

Nance also described the conduct as "unlawful weaponization and imprisonment." That language may sound strong. But when the government's own internal records show a federal task force taking direction from advocacy groups, building files on citizens exercising their First Amendment rights, and prosecuting people whose names appeared on those groups' target lists, the characterization is hard to dismiss.

Trump moved early in his current term to address the fallout. In January 2025, he issued full and unconditional pardons to 23 pro-life activists and protesters who had been prosecuted under the FACE Act. That decision drew criticism from the usual quarters, but the task force report now provides a factual foundation for why those pardons were warranted. The Biden family's own record on clemency makes the contrast all the sharper.

Rep. Chip Roy has pushed legislation to repeal the FACE Act entirely, arguing the law has become a vehicle for political targeting rather than evenhanded enforcement. The task force findings will almost certainly accelerate that effort on Capitol Hill.

Questions that remain

The report, for all its detail, leaves significant questions unanswered. Which specific pro-life activists appeared in the dossiers? Which pro-choice group authored the 137-page memorandum in 2021? Which U.S. Attorney's Office brought charges against the woman whose prosecution satisfied the advocacy groups? And what, if anything, did the National Abortion Federation say in response to the findings? Fox News Digital reached out to the organization for comment.

A source close to Biden declined to comment. That silence is notable given the gravity of the allegations, that a sitting president's Justice Department effectively outsourced its enforcement priorities to private advocacy organizations and used the resulting intelligence to pursue American citizens for their religious convictions.

The ongoing restructuring at the Justice Department under the current administration suggests these findings will not simply gather dust. Whether the revelations lead to referrals, disciplinary action, or legislative reform remains to be seen.

Newsmax noted that the current DOJ has already released the underlying materials and taken steps to limit similar prosecutions going forward. The Weaponization Working Group's findings were based on case files, prosecutorial decisions, and internal communications, the kind of paper trail that is difficult to explain away as mere policy disagreement.

The deeper concern here is not just what happened to 23 pardoned activists or 45-plus defendants. It is what happens to a country when its Justice Department takes its marching orders from interest groups, builds files on citizens exercising their constitutional rights, and treats religious belief as a reason to prosecute rather than a right to protect. Revelations about other alleged Biden-era misconduct continue to surface, and the pattern grows harder to dismiss as coincidence.

A government that keeps dossiers on its own citizens, complete with photos of their children, because those citizens hold the wrong views on abortion is not enforcing the law. It is enforcing an ideology. And the people who built that machine should have to answer for it.