The Justice Department is signaling a broader use of federal civil rights law against protesters accused of disrupting religious worship, with officials pointing to synagogue cases as a model for future enforcement.Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said the department has applied the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a law historically associated with abortion clinic protests, to cases involving disruptions at Jewish houses of worship."It was our pioneering application of the FACE Act to defend Jewish synagogue...

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