Joe Biden is facing a new lawsuit from a pro-life group after filing bogus charges against pro-life advocate Mark Houck and trying to put him in prison.
Houck is suing Joe Biden and his Department of Justice over the bogus FBI raid on his family home and the politicized prosecution against him for merely protesting abortion.
Now a pro-life group is also suing Biden officials.
Shawn Carney of 40 Days for Life tells LifeNews, “This week, the 40 Days for Life Institute of Law & Justice filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Justice and multiple state and local law enforcement officers on behalf of longtime 40 Days for Life participant Mark Houck.”
“This lawsuit won’t defend only Mark’s rights–but also the rights of ALL pro-life Americans targeted by the compromised and biased DOJ,” Carney explained.
He provided the following statement:
In the fall of 2022, Mark’s home and family were needlessly subjected to an early-morning raid at gunpoint by state and federal law enforcement teams displaying overwhelming force–after he had done nothing wrong and AFTER he had agreed to peacefully cooperate.
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His “crime”? Protecting his young son from an angry Planned Parenthood escort in Philadelphia who was aggressively cursing at his son.
Philadelphia law enforcement REFUSED to file charges. Philadelphia’s pro-abortion district attorney DROPPED charges after a private criminal complaint was obtained.
But just five days AFTER private criminal charges were DISMISSED, the DOJ sent its “target letter” and asked to talk to Mark’s lawyer. Mark complied, but the feds never returned any communications or calls.
Then, heavily armed state and federal agents raided Mark’s property and home and arrested him AT GUNPOINT in front of his family, pointed automatic weapons at his wife and young children, transported him to the federal building, chained him to a table for SIX hours, and filed bogus charges that left him facing more than a decade in federal prison!
A federal jury acquitted Mark after deliberating for JUST AN HOUR…
…but the DOJ’s outrageous misconduct against Mark and his family was designed to intimidate pro-lifers EVERYWHERE into silence.
We won’t let that happen.
Represented by the 40 Days for Life Institute of Law & Justice–which includes a former DOJ litigator and elected prosecutors–Mark has now sued the DOJ for violating his civil rights and for harming him and his precious family.
We’ve worked well with the many great men and women at the DOJ and FBI since 2007. What changed? The overturning of Roe v. Wade.
40 Days for Life is closing abortion facilities, and the only way to get rid of 40 Days for Life is to get rid of free speech.
We launched the Institute of Law & Justice to protect our mission and defend prayer volunteers with the most professional, talented, and experienced attorneys with a long record of winning in court.
And it’s working. The 40 Days for Life Institute of Law & Justice just got a bogus charge against a peaceful pro-lifer in Colorado dismissed.
“Thank you [to] the Institute of Law & Justice for the legal help and support you gave me fighting my harassment charge,” wrote the volunteer. “You shared information about the charge [and] what was ahead of me and assured me that I was not alone in the process and [that] you would help me along the way. You kept me updated the whole way. It was a scary time for me and my family. … We don’t know what we would have done without you.”
The Biden administration continues targeting pro-life Americans for peacefully protesting abortion, contending they are breaking a law that makes it illegal to block access to abortion businesses. In Houck’s case, he won a massive pro-life victory in federal court when a jury dismissed the trumped up charges against him.
Houck was facing bogus charges that he violated the federal FACE law when he was helping women outside an abortion center. An abortion business escort accosted and bullied his son and Houck stepped in to stop it – and, in doing so, the older abortion center volunteer fell down. Houck could have faced over a decade in prison if he was found guilty.
Houck made national headlines after 20 heavily-armed federal agents stormed his home at dawn on September 23 — frightening his family, pointing guns at his head, and then arresting him in front of his wife and seven young children.
And now Houck is suing, seeking $4.3 million related to the “faulty” investigation led to an excessively forceful arrest and a “malicious and retaliatory prosecution” that has severely impacted their entire family. Houck and his family filed two claims for a total of $4.35 million in damages due to the FBI’s unconstitutional, “malicious,” and “corrupt” use of “excessive force.”
With the help of pro-life attorneys during an appearance in federal court, Houck pleaded not guilty in Pennsylvania federal court to violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a federal crime to use force with the intent to injure, intimidate and interfere with anyone trying to access either abortion at an abortion business or medical care at a pregnancy center.
Houck’s attorney, Peter Breen, said that the case already made its way through the state court process and was thrown out, but the Biden Department of Justice took up the matter nearly a year later as a form of “political prosecution.”
“If he was truly a danger to the community, they wouldn’t have waited a year to prosecute,” Breen, VP senior counsel of the Thomas More Society, said outside the courthouse. “Serious questions need to be asked of the Attorney General. What was he thinking? Why did they do this obscene show of force against a peaceful pillar of the community?”
“It put officers’ lives in danger. It put the Houck family in danger. And it was an utter waste of judicial resources and taxpayer resources,” Breen said.
Houck, a father of seven, is frequently seen sidewalk counseling in front of Philadelphia abortion businesses to help women choose pro-life alternatives.
In October 2021, Houck was involved in an incident outside a Philadelphia abortion business where a pro-abortion clinic escort had repeatedly bullied and intimidated his 12-year-old son who was with him to help sidewalk counsel and encourage women to choose pro-life alternatives. After multiple verbal assaults and the abortion activist getting into his son’s face, Houck pushed him away and he fell.
Houck, who regularly prays the rosary outside the clinic, maintains he was defending his 12-year-old son from the escort’s verbal harassment, a family spokesman, Brian Middleton, told CNA. The man fell when Houck pushed him away, Middleton said. The incident was so minor that charges were never pressed and a court ultimately dismissed a complaint the abortion activist filed.
In June 2022, Thomas More Society attorneys notified the Biden Department of Justice that the FACE Act does not cover one-on-one altercations like the one involving Houck, which was initiated by the abortion proponent who was harassing Houck’s son. The Department of Justice was also advised that if the decision was made to bring a charge against Houck despite lack of legal foundation, Houck would appear voluntarily.
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