Justice Department report alleges Biden-era anti-Christian bias across government

The Justice Department used a 200-page report to turn a long-running political grievance into an administrative case for reshaping federal power around religious bias. The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias said on April 30 that Biden-era prosecutions, policies and agency practices reflected hostility toward Christians across the government, from civil-rights enforcement to campus rules and vaccine mandates.

The report was coordinated by the Justice Department under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and says it drew on findings from 17 federal agencies, more than 1,100 footnotes and more than 300 pages of exhibits. Officials said they reviewed internal discussions, case files and prosecutorial decisions, and met with more than 100 stakeholders and victims. The result is not a court ruling, but a government blueprint that seeks to recast a series of Biden-era actions as evidence of systemic bias.

The task force said its review reached conscience rights, the Johnson Amendment, fines against Christian universities, girls’ sports, vaccine mandates and exclusion of Christians from public programs. That breadth matters. It suggests the administration is not limiting itself to a single dispute, but building a wider argument that federal agencies under Joe Biden applied neutral laws in ways that discriminated against Christians or chilled Christian expression.

The legal and administrative stakes are significant. Executive Order 14202, signed by Donald Trump on February 6, 2025 and published in the Federal Register on February 12, directed the government to protect religious freedom and end “anti-Christian weaponization” of government. That order accused the previous administration of bringing federal criminal charges against nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life Christians who prayed or demonstrated outside abortion facilities and of ignoring more than 100 attacks on Catholic churches, charities and pro-life centers. The new report gives that order an evidentiary backbone and could be used to justify revised guidance, new enforcement priorities, and tighter review of agency training and grant policies.

The task force itself has been building for more than a year. Pam Bondi hosted its inaugural meeting at the Justice Department on April 22, 2025, and the first report, dated June 6, 2025, cataloged examples from the Pentagon, the Education Department, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, the FBI, Labor, the Small Business Administration, State, Treasury and Veterans Affairs.

The political message is as important as the policy file. By framing Biden-era civil-rights work as anti-Christian bias, the administration is using federal machinery to redefine neutrality itself, setting up a broader culture-war fight over who counts as protected and when enforcement becomes persecution.