{"id":1727075,"date":"2022-11-05T06:14:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727075"},"modified":"2022-11-07T01:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T06:22:30","slug":"the-four-craziest-cases-the-doj-pursued-while-ignoring-pregnancy-center-firebombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-four-craziest-cases-the-doj-pursued-while-ignoring-pregnancy-center-firebombers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Craziest Cases the DOJ Pursued While Ignoring Pregnancy Center Firebombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fthe-four-craziest-cases-the-doj-pursued-while-ignoring-pregnancy-center-firebombers%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=1727075&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Garland.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been 186 days since someone \u2014 whose name we still don\u2019t know \u2014 leaked a draft of the Supreme Court\u2019s <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> decision overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, setting off dozens of violent attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers as well as churches. Pregnancy clinics were firebombed, threatened, and vandalized, yet the Biden administration\u2019s Justice Department has failed to announce the indictment of a single perpetrator. <\/p>\n<p>The DOJ has used the FACE Act \u2014 an unconstitutional <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/28\/the-face-act-is-unconstitutional-its-past-time-congress-got-rid-of-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abuse of power<\/a> that the Justice Department has turned into an even more blatantly unconstitutional attack on the First Amendment \u2014 to target peaceful pro-life advocates. And even though the FACE Act ostensibly protects pro-life pregnancy clinics, not just abortion facilities, the law enforcement arm of the Biden administration has yet to publicly indict anyone who firebombed a pro-life pregnancy center this year. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the DOJ has prioritized ridiculous-sounding cases that are reflective of our government\u2019s administrative bloat. Whether you think some of these bizarre cases are worth pursuing at all, they certainly don\u2019t seem to rise to the level of urgency that prosecuting arsonists who terrorize pregnancy clinics would. But for Biden\u2019s politicized DOJ, they do. Here are a few of the kookiest cases the DOJ prosecuted while allowing the perpetrators of violent attacks on pregnancy centers to continue walking free.<\/p>\n<h2>WV Man Indicted for Buying a Ginseng Root Plant from Ohio<\/h2>\n<p>What\u2019s more important than prosecuting political terrorists? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/west-virginia-man-indicted-acquiring-illegally-transported-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arresting<\/a> a man who obtained a plant that was \u201cillegally transported\u201d across state lines, according to Merrick Garland\u2019s DOJ. Was it a deadly, psychoactive plant, at least? Nope, it was ginseng, a plant that some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/262982#_noHeaderPrefixedContent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claim<\/a> \u201cmay boost energy, lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels, reduce stress, promote relaxation, treat diabetes, and manage sexual dysfunction in men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican ginseng grows wild in shady, mature Appalachian forests,\u201d local news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2022\/08\/west-virginia-man-indicted-in-columbus-for-acquiring-illegally-transported-ginseng.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s been used for hundreds of years by the Cherokee and in Appalachian folk medicine. More recently, demand for American ginseng has shot up with Chinese demand for it in herbal medicine. It can sell for up to $850 a pound.\u201d (Sounds expensive, yes, but note that the well-known spice saffron <a href=\"https:\/\/spicetutor.com\/most-expensive-spices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">goes<\/a> for the equivalent of $2,366 per pound.)<\/p>\n<p>For his alleged crime \u2014 which the DOJ announced on Aug. 26, 116 days after the <em>Dobbs<\/em> leak \u2014 59-year-old Tony Lee Coffman of West Virginia faces a maximum of 30 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n<h2>DOJ Investigates a Massachusetts School for Not Accommodating Indigenous Mayan Language<\/h2>\n<p>In September, four months after the <em>Dobbs<\/em> leak, the DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-secures-agreement-massachusetts-school-district-ensure-equal-educational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> it had investigated and subsequently reached a settlement with New Bedford Public Schools in Massachusetts after the school was accused of not sufficiently accommodating K\u2019iche\u2019, a Mayan language spoken in some areas of Guatemala. The Justice Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/press-release\/file\/1535261\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">settlement<\/a> forced the school to employ translators and interpreters of K\u2019iche\u2019 as well as \u201ctrain all staff who communicate with parents\u201d on the K\u2019iche\u2019 language. The DOJ would then spend time and resources to \u201creview and provide feedback\u201d on the school\u2019s \u201cproposed training materials.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In addition, \u201cThe Justice Department will monitor the district\u2019s implementation of the settlement agreement for at least three full school years to ensure that the district complies with its obligations,\u201d the agency press release stated, calling such enforcements a \u201ctop priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Ohio Woman Pleads Guilty After Selling Marbled Crayfish<\/h2>\n<p>Allison Spaulding, a 46-year-old Ohio resident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/ohio-woman-pleads-guilty-violating-lacey-act-selling-marbled-crayfish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">faces<\/a> up to a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine for selling an invasive species of crayfish. She\u2019s charged under the Lacey Act, a conservation law passed in 1900 and significantly broadened since then. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ohio Division of Wildlife added the marbled crayfish to the injurious aquatic invasive species list for Ohio in January 2020,\u201d the DOJ press release explained. \u201c[C]onduct [like Spaulding\u2019s] will be prosecuted and punished,\u201d emphasized Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department\u2019s Environment and Natural Resources Division.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s likely a compelling reason to limit the sale of invasive species, sure. But this case, for which the aforementioned press release dropped weeks after the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision leak, doesn\u2019t seem deserving of priority over hate crimes against pro-lifers.<\/p>\n<h2>DOJ Fines Kohl\u2019s, Walmart Millions for Advertising Rayon as Bamboo<\/h2>\n<p>On the same day that pro-abortion radicals <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1524466721704325122?s=20&#038;t=GxPaM9bSyoBPoGMy-bQrAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smashed<\/a> in the windows of a pregnancy resource center in Portland, Oregon, and graphicly vandalized it, the DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/kohl-s-and-walmart-agree-pay-55-million-combined-penalties-alleged-deceptive-violations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that retail giants Walmart and Kohl\u2019s would each pay millions after violating the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act. The government accused the companies of \u201cadvertising products as made of bamboo when such products were actually made of rayon and did not contain bamboo fibers,\u201d and claiming those products \u201cwere environmentally friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFalse environmental claims harm both consumers and honest businesses, and companies that greenwash can expect to pay a price,\u201d warned Samuel Levine, director of the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s Bureau of Consumer Protection.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, companies should be marketing honestly, and perhaps the federal government should play a role in enforcing that. But you know what didn\u2019t get a press release on the DOJ website with a threatening quote? Anything about bringing the attacker of the Portland pregnancy center to justice.<\/p>\n<h2>The DOJ\u2019s Priorities Are Clear<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s true that criminal investigations can take time. But it\u2019s also true that federal law enforcement agencies have prioritized investigations that are politically expedient, even at the expense of pursuing child sex abuse cases, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1572020677087236096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to FBI whistleblowers. Meanwhile, the DOJ has shown it has little interest in protecting the rights and safety of pro-lifers, as it has abused the FACE Act to go after at least 22 apparently nonviolent pro-life advocates just this year. <\/p>\n<p>The FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/19\/the-fbi-has-indicted-22-pro-life-protesters-and-zero-pregnancy-center-firebombers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> to answer The Federalist\u2019s inquiries last month as to whether it had \u201cmade any arrests related to the vandalism, firebombing, etc. of dozens of pregnancy resource centers and churches around the country since the leak of the Supreme Court\u2019s <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> decision,\u201d and the DOJ failed even to respond.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Purnell is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her work on Twitter @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been 186 days since someone \u2014 whose name we still don\u2019t know \u2014 leaked a draft of the Supreme Court\u2019s Dobbs v. Jackson decision overturning Roe v. 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