The Trump administration is finalizing a report that casts the Biden Justice Department as anti-Christian over its enforcement of laws protecting abortion clinics and enforcement of Covid regulations, among other issues, according to details of the report viewed by NBC News.

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The report stems from a Justice Department-led task force that aims to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” formed after an executive order President Donald Trump signed in February 2025. A final version is expected to be released in the coming weeks, a Justice Department spokesperson said.

The report does not carry any legal weight, but serves as an opportunity for the Trump administration to swipe politically at the Biden administration.

Trump has long claimed that Joe Biden was anti-Christian, though the former president is a devout Catholic who has rejected those statements. At the 2021 National Prayer Breakfast, a Christian-leaning event that brings together members of Congress, the White House and other leaders, Biden condemned the “political extremism” that inspired the riot by Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump’s order argued that the “Biden Department of Justice sought to squelch faith in the public square,” and the draft task force report uses similar language, claiming the Biden administration “engaged in anti-Christian bias.”

An analysis by the Interfaith Alliance after Trump’s executive order found no evidence of widespread anti-Christian bias in the U.S.

“In reality, it will weaponize a narrow understanding of religious freedom to legitimize discrimination against marginalized groups,” the alliance analysis said.

One part of the report is expected to criticize the Biden Justice Department’s use of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which was passed in 1994 in the wake of attacks on abortion clinics and providers.

Some anti-abortion protesters who were prosecuted under the law when Biden was in office were pardoned by Trump when he took office.

Kristen Clarke, the former assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department under Biden, said in a statement to NBC News that the Justice Department “enforced the law even-handedly and put public safety at the center” of its work.

“For decades, the Civil Rights Division brought law enforcement leaders, crisis pregnancy center representatives, and reproductive health care staff together to address the real violence, threats of violence, and obstruction that too many people face in our country when it comes to reproductive health care,” Clarke said.

Biden’s office didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment.

The report’s draft language is unusual for the Justice Department, which typically speaks through legal filings, and examinations of internal policies and procedures normally emerge from the inspector general’s office. But it isn’t solely a DOJ product; the task force also included Trump Cabinet members.

It is also expected to touch on a matter of topics that have already drawn attention, including a retracted 2023 memo from an FBI field office in Richmond, Virginia, that discussed “radical-traditionalist” Catholics. Former FBI Director Chris Wray and former Attorney General Merrick Garland both disavowed the memo after it was leaked by a then FBI special agent who grew close to, and has since had a falling out with, FBI Director Kash Patel.

Patel was interviewed for the upcoming report and noted that the Richmond memo had been “discussed widely and rightfully so,” according to details viewed by NBC News.

Patel said they did a “full deep dive” into the creation of the memo and said the FBI had “jettisoned all relationships with the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League,” which he said “contributed to this woeful violation of our constitutional rights.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a legal advocacy organization founded in the 1970s that seeks to fight systemic discrimination through litigation. The Anti-Defamation League is a nonprofit dedicated to stopping antisemitism and extremism in all forms.

Harmeet Dhillon, Trump’s appointee to head the Civil Rights Division, has used the FACE Act in a historically unprecedented manner, charging dozens of anti-ICE protesters who showed up to a Minnesota church, as well as former CNN anchor Don Lemon. Her office unsuccessfully attempted to keep many of the defendants incarcerated until trial, an unusual demand in cases where defendants are accused of nonviolent crimes. They also wrongly accused and arrested a woman who didn’t take part in the protest.

Jonathan Darnel, an anti-abortion activist who was sentenced to 34 months in prison in a FACE Act case and then pardoned by Trump, told NBC News on Thursday that he wanted to see the final report before commenting on it. But Darnel also criticized the Trump administration’s approach to the FACE Act against Lemon.

“I’m definitely not a fan of overzealous prosecution, whichever way it goes,” Darnel told NBC News after Lemon’s arrest. “The punishment should fit the crime, and FACE — especially when you couple FACE with conspiracy charges — could send somebody to prison for years, and that just seems like way too much of a penalty for what is effectively just ruining people’s morning.”

Darnel said he was afraid that if Trump administration officials “start using this law as a convenient tool to go after people they don’t like, then it will never get repealed, and it will be much, much more difficult for people to do the sort of things that I did, and what the other rescuers are trying to do, just peacefully interpose at abortion clinics.”

“We’re ready to face certain legal penalties, that’s just part of it,” he said, but added that the punishments under the FACE Act were “way too much.”

A separate forthcoming report focusing on the FACE Act is the product of the Justice Department’s “weaponization working group,” according to details of that report seen by NBC News. Under a DOJ memo put out last year, the group was supposed to examine FACE Act prosecutions among other issues. The report is expected to single out individual attorneys over their handling of FACE Act cases, according to details seen by NBC News. MS NOW first reported details of that report.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in response to a question from NBC News this week that the work of the “weaponization working group” — previously headed by Jan. 6 defendant advocate Ed Martin — would emerge publicly soon.