Daily News | The trial of a prominent Bucks County antiabortion activist opens amid a political firestorm
And had the altercation that broke out near the intersection of 12th and Lombard Streets on Oct. 31, 2021, occurred on almost any other street corner in the city, it might never have landed in federal court.
If anything, defense lawyer Brian McMonagle told the panel, the case amounted to little more than a misdemeanor assault. Even State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the former GOP gubernatorial candidate who lost his election to Josh Shapiro, weighed in from the campaign trail blasting the case last year as part of what he called “the continued weaponization of the FBI and persecution by Joe Biden’s DOJ against ordinary Americans.”
Critics of the government’s case are right on one point. The Justice Department has brought an increasing number of FACE Act prosecutions over the last year. Testifying Wednesday, staff at the Blackwell Clinic described Houck as an aggressive and well-known “provocateur” who showed up weekly to harass patients on their way inside. Expected to testify Thursday, Love has told authorities that when he saw Houck that day, accompanied by his 12-year-old son, following two patients leaving the clinic, he approached the women to tell them they didn’t have to listen.
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