SW News: A coalition of conservative organizations is initiating legal action to get documents from the Department of Justice (DOJ) concerning the rise in attacks on churches and pro-life pregnancy facilities and a lack of prosecution by the agency.

After the May 2022 leak of the US Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, which repealed the abortion protections provided in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, there have been more than 100 attacks on churches and pro-life pregnancy facilities. Nearly all of the attacks' perpetrators have gone unpunished by the DOJ.

The DOJ is being sued for allegedly refusing to produce documents that were requested under the Freedom of Information Act, according to a lawsuit brought by the Heritage Foundation and Advancing American Freedom. All records and internal DOJ communications pertaining to offences against pro-life pregnancy facilities and churches are included in the papers sought. The requests also cover any correspondence the DOJ had with the Domestic Policy Council or the President's Executive Office on these crimes' investigations.

The lawsuit requests that the court require the DOJ to do searches and deliver the papers within 20 days, or on whatever schedule the court deems fit. Additionally, it requests that the court force the DOJ to give the records away for free. The DOJ has also claimed that a FOIA public liaison was made available to help with the request and that its Office of Information Policy warned the coalition that the searches would take longer than 30 days. The DOJ has also mentioned that it gave them the Office of Government Information Services' contact information, which it has argued is in accordance with the legislative obligations for an agency if it is unable to release the materials within 30 days.

Rep. Jim Jordan, who currently serves as chair of the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, began an investigation into claims that the DOJ has harshly prosecuted pro-life activists while failing to prosecute pro-abortion activists who have attacked churches and pro-life pregnancy centers.