'Do You Intend To Prosecute Them?': Blackburn Confronts AG Garland About Far-Left Pro-Abortion Group

diaper thank you Mr chairman and Mr attorney general thank you for your time today listening to the questions and the answers and your responses what is coming clear to me as I listen to this is basically in your doj the Biden doj there are two tiers of Justice there are one for people with conservative values for parents for people of faith and then there is another tier of justice that applies to the Washington liberal Elites political Elites and what I want to do is dig down a little bit on how you and the department have applied this discretionary form of of uh justice it's something that concerns tennesseans and when I'm across the state 8 we have 95 counties I visit each of them every year and Mr attorney general that comes up quite a bit much of it has come up in relation to the Dobbs decision and the attacks and the violence there has increased from groups on the far left it has not increased from pro-life groups and since the dub dubs leak there have been 70 pro-life pregnancy centers that were targeted only two of these activists have been indicted there are 25 individuals that have been indicted under the face act in just five months so you see the disparity there I appreciate you said that most of these attacks are carried out at night and that the protests take place during the day so you say it's easier to identify and go after people that are carrying out a peaceful protest during the day rather than a fire bombing at night is that correct yeah if I if I could just say I wish you would assure your constituents and all the counties that the justice department does not treat people in the way that is described we treat like cases alike we do not have one view okay then let's talk about a specific case in Tennessee the Hope Clinic are you familiar with that I'm not familiar with it okay the Hope Clinic for women is a Pregnancy Resource Center in Nashville and currently you have gone out of your way to prosecute 11 individuals in Tennessee under the face Act and are you aware that this Clinic was the subject of an attempted firebombing with the molotov cocktail so we are very concerned about these kind of firebombings and I agree with you they're happening around the United States the FBI has put its resources into this we are investigating it in every way we've offered rewards for anyone who has information get classified when we talked about the way parents of children were treated and because they were concerned over what was being taught in schools Senator Kennedy just went through that with you um you applied domestic terrorism as a term in couching that activity now under federal law which you have cited this is how you term domestic terrorism and I'm quoting activities that involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any state so under that definition would you agree that firebombing a Crisis Pregnancy Center constitutes an act of domestic terrorism I would say yes but I want to again disagree with your earlier characterizations there was no memorandum about parents complaining uh and their uh to their school boards and they're talking about bombing firebombing pregnancies I understand and there was no reference in that memo to using domestic terrorism bombing fire bombing where it said yes fire bombing where domestic terrorists at least domestic violence so then let's talk about the far left group Jane's Revenge because they claimed responsibility for that they went so far as to spray paint their name on the wall so do you intend to prosecute that intend if we find them to do that there is a system so you can't find them if you have information about those groups we we would be happy to that is your job that's right and we are putting heavy resources into this we have found a group that is there a domestic terrorist organization I would say it depends on it depends on the people who took credit for this spray painted their name on the wall let me let me ask you a couple of questions before my time Runs Out we've talked a little bit today about the targeting at the justices homes Have You released any type of memorandum that explicitly condemns the acts of intimidation outside of the Supreme Court Justices homes I have directly instructed the Marshall service to send over 70 United States Marshals to prevent acts of violence and threats of violence outside I don't need to do a memo because I spoke directly to the marshals about this topic all right have you watched any of the footage of the protesters outside the justices homes unless I caught it on the news I haven't specifically watched it are you investigating any of those individuals you said you know you investigate protesters because they they do their activity then in the light of day and most of the fire bombings and things take place at night but I would think the FBI knows how to investigate crime as I explained our principal responsibility here is to protect the lives of the justices we've put the United States I haven't watched any of that footage the United States Marshals are on scene watching what happens on scene any of those into protesting at the justices other than to try to intimidate the Marshall's job is to protect the lives of the justices and they will arrest people who they think are threatening the lives of the justices that's their job thank you Mr attorney general I have to say people in Tennessee talk a lot about their frustration they want to trust the doj they want to be able to trust their government they are very concerned about what appears to be by actions to tears of justice and this is something that they do not see as equal treatment under the law thank you Mr thank you Senator Blackburn Senator Welch thank you very much Mr chairman Mr attorney general I appreciate the work you've been doing on Election infrastructure and security we have our town meeting in Vermont next week we're pretty proud of that you raise your hand and to

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Length: 7min 44sec (464 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 02 2023