How Trump officials created ‘nuclear option’ against protesters in church

The 1994 law was initially established to protect abortion clinics from an eruption of violence; a clause extending the protections to houses of worship was added later. For most of its history, the Face Act has been used exclusively to prosecute anti-abortion groups and agitators. The Trump administration, Ziegler said, has rolled back the use of the law to prohibit blockades of abortion clinics while expanding its powers against pro-Palestine and anti-ICE protests near religious sites. Last January, Trump pardoned 10 anti-abortion advocates who had been charged with violating the Face Act...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/trump-church-protests 

 

The Regime Plans to Weaponize the FACE Act (Andrew Seidel; One Nation, Indivisible podcast Episode #049)

The Trump Regime and Bondi’s DOJ are going after anti-ICE protesters who protested in a church that has an ICE Pastor (it’s a thing). The FACE Act is the newest talking point and prosecution point for the regime. What is the FACE Act? Why was it passed? How is it being used against these protesters? Andrew explains it all. But first, the regime altered photos of the arrest of the protester in deliberately cruel ways.  

• The Guardian article with the photo tool 
• NAACP lynching stats 
• Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is here 
• Hemant Mehta’s article, “The anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church was a justified rebuke of the pastor's cruelty.”  
• The text of the FACE Act is here. 
• Trump pardons FACE Act violators by lying about “anti-Christian bias”

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-hiipg-2a9ec558