Top Senate Republicans are probing the FBI's now-rescinded memo on 'radical-traditionalist Catholics,' seeking assurances that the agency will disavow targeting religious groups based on information from the Southern Poverty Law Center and other...
Wednesday from Sen. Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican, before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“The Justice Department does not do that, it does not do investigations based on religion,” Mr. Garland said. “I saw the document you sent. It’s appalling. It’s appalling. I’m in complete agreement with you. I understand theThe department has charged more than 20 pro-life activists with offenses related to protests at abortion clinics since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June while making only two arrests in the 81 attacks on pro-life offices and pregnancy centers.
The document, whose sources include left-wing publications Salon and The Atlantic, says “RTCs” are characterized by the rejection of the Second Vatican Council ; disdain for most popes elected since then, and “frequent adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology.”
The senators said that the SPLC “reportedly offers no instances of violence to back up its claims that traditional Catholics are aligned with white supremacist groups, and SPLC is notoriously inaccurate and irresponsible in its labeling of “hate groups.”
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