{"id":1660620,"date":"2022-09-27T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T18:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660620"},"modified":"2022-09-27T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T18:21:19","slug":"arrest-of-catholic-pro-life-speaker-a-new-low-for-justice-department-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arrest-of-catholic-pro-life-speaker-a-new-low-for-justice-department-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest of Catholic Pro-Life Speaker A \u2018New Low\u2019 for Justice Department: Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farrest-of-catholic-pro-life-speaker-a-new-low-for-justice-department-attorney%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660620&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The lead attorney in the case involving pro-life speaker Mark Houck said that sending a team of heavily armed federal agents to his client\u2019s home to arrest him in front of his wife and children on Sept. 23 represents a \u201cnew low\u201d for the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegular law-abiding citizens should not fear 20 heavily armed agents at their door to drag them out while trying to enjoy their morning coffee. This is outrageous,\u201d said Peter Breen, vice president and senior attorney at the Thomas More Society, a national non-profit law firm.<\/p>\n<p>Breen said that federal law enforcement usually reserves such shows of force for \u201ca drug lord or a mafia boss\u2014that\u2019s how they came out to the Houck family home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Houck, 48, a Catholic pro-life speaker, author, and father of seven from Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, faces two counts of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2018-04-04T004513Z_1_LYNXNPEE3302W_RTROPTP_4_CALIFORNIA-YOUTUBE-SHOOTING-1200x800-1.jpg\"><\/a> San Mateo County SWAT team officers near Youtube headquarters following an active shooter situation in San Bruno, California, U.S., April 3, 2018. (Reuters\/Elijah Nouvelage) <\/p>\n<p>Both charges stemmed from an altercation with a patient escort outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in October 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s what we know,\u201d Breen told The Epoch Times in a phone interview. \u201cWe know this [raid] was done at main justice out of Washington, D.C., and someone had to approve that size of a raid to execute an arrest warrant when the defendant\u2019s attorney had offered to bring him in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that has to be approved at a high level within the Department Of Justice\u2014possibly from the attorney general himself. But, certainly, one of his top people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Houck was scheduled to be in federal court in Philadelphia today, Sept. 27, at 1:30 p.m. for his arraignment.\u00a0If convicted, he faces up to 11 years in prison,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lead attorney in the case involving pro-life speaker Mark Houck said that sending a team of heavily armed federal agents to his client\u2019s home to arrest him in front of his wife and children on Sept. 23 represents a \u201cnew low\u201d for the U.S. Department of Justice. \u201cRegular law-abiding citizens should not fear 20 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}