A law firm on Wednesday petitioned President-elect Donald Trump to pardon 21 anti-abortion activists prosecuted by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice when he begins his second term Monday.

“These peaceful pro-life Americans mistreated by Biden include grandparents, pastors, a Holocaust survivor, and a Catholic priest — all are selfless, sincere patriots,” stated the letter, signed by leaders of the Thomas More Society, a conservative legal group that is representing the defendants. “We respectfully urge that all 21 of them detailed here are richly deserving of full and unconditional pardons.”

Trump pledged that on his first day in office he will pardon most of the people Biden’s DOJ prosecuted after the events of Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol.

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