National Archives REMOVES Security Guard for Unconstitutionally Targeting Pro-Life Americans, but It's Not Enough
In the wake of security guards targeting and harassing pro-life visitors at both the Smithsonian and the National Archives following the March for Life in Washington, D.C. – which the ACLJ has already filed two lawsuits over to expose this religious discrimination at federally funded institutions – the National Archives has taken action of its own, removing a security team supervisor.
A security officer at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is no longer working there after a lawsuit claimed he told visitors from March for Life to remove or cover up clothing bearing pro-life messages, Fox News has confirmed.
Archivist Debra Steidel Wall disclosed the information in a letter about the incident from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas.
“The security officers involved in the January 20, 2023, incident are private contractors on a NARA contract,” Wall said in the letter that NARA shared with Fox News Digital. “Our vendor conducted its own investigation of the incident and determined a supervisor that it employed, who was working that day, provided instructions to other security officers who work for the same vendor that were contrary to our policy. The vendor has removed this supervisor from NARA’s contract, and that individual is no longer working in any NARA facility.”
The National Archives doesn’t actually employ its security staff and instead contracts its security guards from an outside firm; but essentially, this supervisor was fired. He won’t be harassing any more Christian and pro-life Americans who just want to see the Constitution. The company agreed to remove the officer from all NARA contracts. But we know this guard and all others involved weren’t acting on their own. Remember, the same thing happened in two separate federal facilities on the same day. We believe the order had to have come down from somewhere above, which is why we filed our lawsuit to find out who gave the directive and to hold them accountable.
The National Archives clearly knows it got caught targeting innocent visitors just for being pro-life, which is unconstitutional and certainly not acceptable behavior for a federal agency that relies heavily on federal funding. It seems to want to distance itself from this entire ordeal. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have asked their security provider to remove the supervising officer, making him more or less out to be a scapegoat. And as we told you last week, the National Archives already agreed to enter into a consent order and preliminary injunction that states it cannot prohibit anyone with pro-life or religious messaging on their clothing from entering the museum, among other important points. It must also now provide a copy of that consent order to every security officer who works at a NARA facility. And the federal agency was ordered to formally apologize to our clients for mistreating and embarrassing them because they are pro-life.
But the case is far from over. We filed a lawsuit and we are taking on the National Archives – which receives funding from the federal government, courtesy of the taxpayers – to uncover who was behind this clandestine assault on pro-life Americans. And we’ll be seeing the Smithsonian in court as well.
If the radical Left can ban pro-lifers from visiting museums, what’s next? Theaters? Grocery stores? It’s outrageous. Is the abortion industry’s grip on the Biden Administration so strong that it will weaponize normally benign, federally funded institutions to target and harass grandparents, students, and anyone else wearing clothing with the words “pro-life?” This madness has to be shut down here and now.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes more analysis of the National Archives removing the supervising security guard who targeted our pro-life clients. We also discuss the latest update in the Special Counsel investigating Biden’s classified documents fiasco.
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