"Biden DOJ attorney said ‘I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit’: report"

Two Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers under the Biden administration glowingly sent text messages about the prospect of prosecuting Catholic nuns who wear traditional habits and veils, a Republican Senate investigation has revealed.

Communications shared with Republican Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as part of his probe into the investigations of former Special Counsel Jack Smith, show that, back in February 2021, two Biden-era prosecutors, Joseph Cooney and Molly Gaston, had exchanged texts about images published by the New York Times showing Catholic nuns wearing traditional habits and veils as well as Trump scarves at a “Stop the Steal” rally, according to an April 29 Daily Wire report.

Gaston noted her desire to personally prosecute these sisters, while Cooney went a step further and said he’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears a “head habit.”

“I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them,” Gaston told Cooney while discussing media coverage of January 6. To which Cooney responded, “I’m with you,” before adding, “though I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.”

“Hahaha,” Gaston replied.

Cooney and Gaston would later serve as top deputies to Jack Smith throughout his “Arctic Frost” investigations into President Trump. The pair now runs a law firm in D.C., and Cooney is running in the Democratic primary for Virginia’s 7th congressional district.

“Freedom of religion is a cherished First Amendment right enshrined in our Constitution by the Founding Fathers,” Grassley told the Daily Wire. “I was appalled, but sadly not surprised, to discover evidence of Biden DOJ prosecutors threatening to use the power of the federal justice system to target people of faith.”

As reported extensively by LifeSiteNews, the Biden DOJ, despite the 46th president’s purported Catholic faith, repeatedly targeted traditional Catholics.