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The Trump administration fired four Justice Department prosecutors involved in cases against anti-abortion activists, accusing the Biden administration on Tuesday of abusing a law designed to protect abortion clinics from obstruction and threats.

The terminations came before the release of a report accusing the Biden administration of biased prosecutions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act.

"This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice," Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said in a statement.

"No Department should conduct selective prosecution based on beliefs. The weaponization that happened under the Biden Administration will not happen again, as we restore integrity to our prosecutorial system.”

The report is the first released from the Justice Department's "Weaponization Working Group," created by former Attorney General Pam Bondi to scrutinize the federal prosecutions of President Donald Trump and other cases criticized by conservatives.

Biden's attorney general, Merrick Garland, and Jack Smith, the special counsel who prosecuted Trump, have said they followed only the facts, the evidence, and the law in their decisions.

The Biden administration brought cases against dozens of defendants under the FACE Act, which makes it illegal to physically obstruct or use the threat of force to intimidate or interfere with a person seeking reproductive health services and prohibits damaging property at abortion clinics and other centers.

It was signed into law in 1994, when clinic protests and blockades were on the rise along with violence against abortion providers such as Dr. David Gunn, who was murdered.

The Trump administration alleges in the report that prosecutors under Biden often "ignored and downplayed" attacks against pregnancy resource centers or houses of worship, which are also protected under the law.

It also claims that the Biden administration pushed for harsher sentences against anti-abortion activists than it did in cases against abortion-rights defendants. Trump last year pardoned anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances, calling them "peaceful pro-life protesters."

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