{"id":98803,"date":"2025-02-06T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T01:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/levanews.com\/?p=53658"},"modified":"2025-02-06T08:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T01:20:37","slug":"trump-signs-controversial-order-addressing-political-prosecutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/trump-signs-controversial-order-addressing-political-prosecutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs controversial order addressing political prosecutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-53669 aligncenter src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2025%5C/02%5C/476086417_122133737774590861_7947216467518355572_n.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1290\"' height='\"1080\"' title='\"\"'>\n</p><p><em><strong>Donald Trump, after being sworn in for a second term as President of the United States, has signed numerous executive orders\u2014some of which have sparked significant public debate.\n<p>Among his actions, he pardoned nearly a dozen pro-life activists convicted under the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and &ldquo;Conspiracy Against Rights.&rdquo;\n</p><p>&ldquo;Twenty-three people were prosecuted who should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted,&rdquo; Trump stated. &ldquo;This is a great honor to sign this.&rdquo;\n</p><p>Granting these pardons was a key promise Trump made during his campaign. According to the Thomas More Society, they were issued the day before the March for Life in Washington, D.C.\n</p><p>&nbsp;\n</p><blockquote class='\"twitter-tweet\"'>\n<p dir='\"ltr\"' lang='\"en\"'>\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump grants pardons to peaceful pro-life protesters prosecuted by the Biden administration over exercising their First Amendment rights. <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/t.co%5C/XwzU4dEJt8%5C%22" target='\"_blank\"'>pic.twitter.com\/XwzU4dEJt8\n<p>\u2014 Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/twitter.com%5C/TrumpWarRoom%5C/status%5C/1882531173563601227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%5C%22" target='\"_blank\"' rel='\"noopener\"'>January 23, 2025\n<p>In their request for clemency, attorneys representing the activists described them as victims of the &ldquo;weaponization of the Justice Department by the Biden Administration.&rdquo; They argued that while Biden\u2019s prosecutors largely ignored incidents of vandalism and firebombing at pro-life churches and pregnancy centers, they aggressively pursued pro-life protesters.\n</p><p>Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America, praised Trump\u2019s decision. &ldquo;We 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,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Pro-life moms, grandmothers, and even Eva Edl, a Communist prison camp survivor, were thrown in jail for peacefully protesting abortion.&rdquo;\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-53680 aligncenter src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2025%5C/02%5C/475374743_1380540580030217_1085173349150208643_n.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1024\"' height='\"695\"' title='\"\"'>\n</p><p>She also highlighted the severe sentences imposed, citing Lauren Handy\u2019s five-year sentence for attempting to expose evidence of late-term and potentially illegal abortions.\n</p><p>While Trump&rsquo;s supporters applauded his move as a stand for pro-life advocacy, critics viewed it as a highly controversial use of presidential power.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>Donald Trump, after being sworn in for a second term as President of the United States, has signed numerous executive orders\u2014some of which have sparked significant public debate. Among his actions, he pardoned nearly a dozen pro-life activists convicted under the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and &ldquo;Conspiracy Against Rights.&rdquo; &ldquo;Twenty-three &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":98810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98813,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98803\/revisions\/98813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></a></p></a></p></blockquote></strong></em></p>