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DOJ Task Force Report Confirms Biden Administration Weaponized Federal Agencies Against Christians, Relying on Discredited SPLC


Summary

  • The Department of Justice’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias released a comprehensive report detailing systemic anti-Christian bias in prosecutions, policies, and practices across the federal government during the Biden administration.
  • The report highlights the FBI’s reliance on Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “hate group” designations to target “radical traditionalist Catholics,” including monitoring of churches and priests.
  • The report arrives as the SPLC faces a major federal indictment for allegedly funneling millions to hate groups like the KKK.


What Happened

The DOJ Task Force report, released on April 30, 2026, documents how Biden-era policies and enforcement actions demonstrated clear anti-Christian bias across multiple federal agencies. A central finding is the FBI’s repeated use of SPLC hate group designations to justify surveillance and investigations into traditional Catholic communities. The controversial 2023 Richmond Field Office memo labeling “radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology” as a domestic terrorism threat relied heavily on SPLC material, despite internal FBI analysts acknowledging the organization’s political bias. The report also documents special access granted to the SPLC, including training for DOJ attorneys, regular meetings, and early access to FBI data.

In April 2026, the DOJ indicted the SPLC on federal fraud charges, alleging it secretly funneled more than $3 million (2014–2023) to people associated with or leaders in violent extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, National Socialist Movement, and others. Prosecutors claim the SPLC misled donors by presenting itself as fighting these groups while paying insiders within them.


America First Legal and the House Judiciary Committee had previously exposed these patterns through records requests and investigations. The new DOJ report officially confirms their findings.


Why It Matters
Federal agencies are required to operate without religious discrimination. Partnering with a highly partisan group like the SPLC to label and target Christians violates constitutional protections. The timing of the Task Force report and the SPLC indictment is particularly damning: the Biden administration empowered an organization now accused of defrauding donors and funding the very extremists it claimed to oppose


The Bigger Picture
The report reveals a pattern of selective enforcement and surveillance aimed at Christians with traditional beliefs. This included aggressive prosecutions of pro-life demonstrators, IRS scrutiny of churches based on sermons, and FBI monitoring of Catholic parishes.


This fits a broader trend of federal agencies partnering with activist organizations to advance ideological goals under the guise of combating “extremism.” Similar dynamics have appeared in other contexts, where groups with clear political agendas are treated as neutral experts. The Task Force’s findings underscore the need for stricter guardrails on how federal agencies select and rely on external sources for threat assessments and policy decisions. Restoring religious liberty and viewpoint neutrality in federal enforcement remains a core priority.


Sources
U.S. Department of Justice press release and full Task Force report (April 30, 2026): https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/task-force-publishes-report-eradicating-anti-christian-bias-and-restoring-religious-liberty


Direct link to the report PDF: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1438506/dl

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