DOJ Report Alleges Anti-Christian Bias Under Biden

The United States Department of Justice released a 209-page report on Thursday, April 30, 2026, compiled by the Trump administration’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, documenting in extraordinary detail how the Biden administration systematically targeted, monitored, prosecuted, and persecuted Christians across multiple federal agencies during its four years in power.

The report, titled “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias within the Federal Government,” represents the most comprehensive government accountability document ever produced on the subject of federal anti-religious bias and contains findings that range from deeply troubling to outright shocking, including internal government communications in which Biden DOJ officials privately described Christian beliefs as “culty” and actively screened prospective jurors for religious belief in cases involving Christian defendants.

The report was compiled pursuant to an executive order signed by President Trump directing a formal investigation into anti-Christian bias within the federal government. The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, which produced the report, was established specifically to examine the conduct of the Biden administration across the full range of federal agencies and to document the ways in which that administration’s policies, prosecutions, and internal culture reflected what the report characterizes as a systematic hostility toward Christian belief and practice.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who chairs the task force, issued a statement accompanying the report’s release that summarized its central finding without equivocation: “No American should live in fear that the federal government will punish them for their faith.” That sentence, simple and direct, frames the entire 209-page document as an accountability measure: the federal government punished Americans for their faith under the Biden administration, and the Trump administration is documenting what happened and committing to ensure it does not happen again.

The most explosive individual findings in the report concern the internal language used by Biden DOJ officials to describe Christian defendants and their beliefs. The report documents that Biden DOJ lawyers called Christian beliefs “culty” in open court during proceedings against pro-life defendants.

That language, used by government prosecutors in a federal courtroom to describe the religious convictions of American citizens they were prosecuting, reflects a contempt for Christian faith that the report argues was not aberrational but representative of the broader culture within the Biden Justice Department.

Internal emails obtained as part of the task force investigation go further than the courtroom language. Emails show Biden DOJ lawyers engaging in what the report describes as fantasy prosecutions of Catholic religious figures, with one email containing the statement: “I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.” That a federal lawyer employed by the United States Department of Justice wrote those words in an internal communication is itself a remarkable finding.

That it reflects an institutional culture rather than an isolated individual opinion is what the report’s 209 pages of documentation argue in exhaustive detail.

The sentencing data documented in the report is among its most concrete and statistically verifiable findings. The Biden DOJ pursued significantly higher sentences for pro-life defendants than for pro-abortion defendants who committed comparable or more serious offenses. The report states that the Biden DOJ requested an average sentence of 26.8 months for the 21 pro-life defendants it successfully prosecuted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, known as the FACE Act, while requesting an average of only 12.3 months for the six pro-abortion defendants it prosecuted under the same statute.

The most stringent sentence requested for an individual pro-life defendant was 78 months, or six and a half years, for Lauren Handy, who ultimately received 58 months. The disparity in sentencing recommendations between the two categories of defendants, charged under the same law, is not a statistical coincidence. It is documented evidence of differential treatment based on the ideology and religious motivation of the defendant.

The FACE Act enforcement disparity is particularly significant because it involves the same federal statute applied to defendants on both sides of the abortion debate. The law prohibits the use of force, threat of force, or physical obstruction to prevent individuals from obtaining or providing reproductive healthcare services. It was designed to be content-neutral, protecting access to both abortion clinics and pregnancy resource centers. The Biden DOJ’s application of the law was not content-neutral.

Pro-life protesters, overwhelmingly Christian in their motivation, received prosecution, conviction, and sentences averaging 26.8 months. Pro-abortion activists who committed violence against pregnancy centers and churches, including firebombings and coordinated vandalism campaigns, received dramatically less prosecutorial attention and dramatically shorter sentence recommendations when they were charged at all.

The report documents that the Biden DOJ used abortion advocacy group dossiers, including photographs of minors, to monitor and target Christians involved in pro-life activities. The use of opposition research compiled by advocacy organizations as an input for federal law enforcement targeting represents a significant departure from the principle that law enforcement agencies develop their own evidence through their own investigative processes rather than acting on intelligence provided by partisan organizations with a direct financial and ideological stake in the outcomes of the prosecutions.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which the report identifies as a key source of intelligence used by the Biden DOJ to target Christian organizations, is a partisan advocacy organization that has a documented history of political bias in its designations of organizations as extremist.

The report also documents that the FBI investigated, monitored, tracked, and scrutinized traditional Catholics who had engaged in no criminal misconduct, based solely on their religious practice and affiliation.

The FBI’s investigation of traditional Catholics, which became public through prior reporting and congressional investigation, is documented in the task force report as part of a pattern of federal surveillance of religious Americans that the report characterizes as without constitutional basis and motivated by hostility to traditional Christian belief rather than by any legitimate law enforcement concern.

The IRS’s conduct toward Christian organizations is another major area documented in the report. The IRS investigated churches because of what their pastors preached and investigated Christian organizations because they applied biblical teachings to daily life.

The use of the tax enforcement apparatus to scrutinize and burden religious organizations based on the content of their religious speech and the religious character of their activities represents exactly the kind of government interference with religious practice that the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses were designed to prevent.

Christian university employees who refused COVID-19 vaccination on religious grounds were terminated or harassed by federal contractors and grantees acting under Biden administration policies, according to the report. The administration’s refusal to provide meaningful religious exemptions from vaccine mandates, despite the clear and documented religious convictions of many Christians who objected to the vaccines on various theological grounds, placed thousands of Americans in the position of choosing between their faith and their employment. The report characterizes the administration’s handling of religious exemption requests as deliberately obstructive rather than genuinely evaluative.

The arrest of Catholic father Mark Houck has become one of the most cited examples of Biden-era anti-Christian prosecution, and the report addresses it directly. Sixteen FBI agents were dispatched to arrest Houck at his home in front of his weeping children for an alleged violation of the FACE Act arising from a sidewalk confrontation outside an abortion clinic. Houck had already been cleared of charges in a local proceeding before the Biden DOJ decided to bring federal charges. A federal jury acquitted him of all charges in less than an hour of deliberation. The decision to deploy 16 FBI agents to arrest a Catholic father at home in front of his children for conduct a local jurisdiction had already declined to prosecute is held up in the report as an illustration of prosecutorial excess motivated by religious animus rather than legitimate law enforcement purpose.

The report covers a broad range of additional federal policy areas in which the Biden administration’s actions clashed with Christian belief and practice. These include the Biden administration’s policies on girls’ sports and gender ideology in schools, which directly conflicted with Christian teaching on the nature of biological sex. They include Johnson Amendment enforcement, which restricts the ability of churches to engage in political speech. They include fines levied against Christian universities for alleged violations of Biden-era interpretations of Title IX. They include the administration’s prioritization of what the report calls “preferred constituencies” over Christians in the allocation of federal resources and legal protection.

The report’s section on pro-abortion violence against pregnancy centers and churches during the Biden years provides additional context for the selective enforcement documented in the FACE Act sentencing data. During the period between the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022 and the end of the Biden administration, hundreds of pregnancy resource centers and dozens of churches across the country were vandalized, firebombed, spray-painted, and otherwise attacked by pro-abortion activists. The Biden DOJ’s response to that wave of anti-Christian violence was dramatically less aggressive than its response to peaceful pro-life protests conducted by Christians outside abortion clinics. That disparity in prosecutorial attention, documented with specific case comparisons in the task force report, is among the most damning findings in the entire document.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued a statement on the same day the report was released, noting that the Treasury Department will continue to utilize its authority to end anti-Christian bias in the programs and activities it oversees. The multi-agency nature of the response reflects the report’s finding that the anti-Christian bias documented was not confined to a single agency but was distributed across the federal government in a pattern that the task force characterizes as the product of a deliberate ideological orientation rather than isolated individual misconduct.

The task force report runs 209 pages and is accompanied by internal government documents, email excerpts, statistical analyses, and case studies that provide the evidentiary foundation for its conclusions. The report does not merely assert that anti-Christian bias existed. It documents it with specificity, names specific policies and practices, provides statistical comparisons between the treatment of Christian and non-Christian defendants, and reproduces internal communications that illustrate the cultural attitudes that drove the institutional conduct.

The report’s release comes at a moment of striking statistical juxtaposition. On the same day that the DOJ documented the Biden administration’s persecution of Christian Americans, Gallup released data showing that young men’s religious attendance has reached its highest level in more than a decade, with 40 percent now attending monthly or more. The two datasets together suggest something important about the current moment: the federal government that spent four years trying to suppress and punish Christian practice has left office, and the generation of young men that government apparently hoped to alienate from their faith has responded by going to church in greater numbers than at any time in the past decade.

The report concludes with a section documenting the remedies the Trump administration has put in place since taking office, including the dismissal of cases brought against pro-life defendants, the restoration of religious exemption rights for federal workers and contractors, and the establishment of the task force itself as an institutional accountability mechanism. The DOJ’s press release accompanying the report stated: “While this report details the egregious actions of the Biden Administration against Christians, it also demonstrates how the Trump Administration is restoring the rights of Christians and all Americans to practice their faith without fear of retribution.”

The American people who practice their Christian faith, attend their churches, stand outside abortion clinics with rosaries in their hands, wear religious habits, and apply biblical teaching to their daily lives were told by the Biden administration, in its actions if not always in its words, that their faith made them suspects. The task force report released on April 30, 2026, puts that statement into the federal record where it belongs, with documentation, with statistics, and with the emails that prove the private contempt that drove the public prosecution.