A top Justice Department official ordered prosecutors on Friday to terminate three pending cases brought by the Biden administration that involved protesters allegedly blocking entrances to abortion clinics.
Attorney general chief of staff Chad Mizelle wrote to the Civil Rights Division head in a memo, obtained by the Washington Examiner, that the move was in line with President Donald Trump’s order to end a perceived weaponization of power by executive branch agencies.
“President Trump campaigned on the promise of ending the weaponization of the federal government and has recently directed all federal departments and agencies to identify and correct the past weaponization of law enforcement,” Mizelle wrote.
Mizelle said that “to many Americans,” Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act prosecutions were the “prototypical example of this…
