NASHVILLE — A Christian pro-life father of 11 facing over a decade in prison will be sentenced on Tuesday for his conviction over a peaceful protest in Tennessee at an abortion facility in 2021.

Paul Vaughn, who was convicted of violating the FACE Act and conspiracy against civil rights in January, was targeted by the Biden administration in October 2022 after he participated in a peaceful protest at an abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee in March 2021. He will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger on Tuesday in Nashville. He faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and up to 10.5 years in prison.

Ten others were charged over the protest. One took a plea deal to avoid jail time after agreeing to cooperate with the Justice Department’s prosecution of the case.

On Monday evening, Vaughn and approximately 200 other pro-lifers gathered at Christ Church Nashville for a rally featuring singing and Bible reading. During brief remarks to those gathered, Vaughn described his legal battle with the Biden admin as “a glorious struggle.”

“It’s real easy for me. I can go and go to battle and go to jail as an individual, and it’s not a big loss,” Vaughn said. “The challenge comes when you’re leading your family through it, when you’re talking to your 3-year-old and your 23-year-old and your other family.”

Vaughn said that he wanted to pray to God every day and get up ready to “take on that day with whatever circumstances come my way and a humility and a grace and a Spirit-led life that represents him in our society and our community around us.”

“How many politicians order their life after truth and justice versus power and greed, negotiating principles?” Vaughn asked, calling for Christians to stand for their beliefs. “They’re willing to give up core foundational principles of faith for a little bit more power, just a little bit more money, or just a little bit more affluence.”

At the protest where Vaughn was present, a group of pro-lifers gathered on the second floor of an office building in the hallway outside the Carafem Health Center Clinic. The group prayed, sang hymns, and urged women showing up to the clinic not to get abortions. No one present was charged with committing any violence.

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The Thomas More Society, which is representing Vaughn, is expected to appeal his conviction soon after sentencing.

Several co-defendants of Vaughn, including Cal Zastrow, Dennis Greene, and Coleman Boyd were also in attendance at the rally. They will be sentenced for the same convictions on Wednesday. The group sang Christian songs like “I Love You Lord” and read from Bible passages like Psalm 2 and Matthew 5.

Other speakers at the rally included Jason Storm of the pro-life Christian group Operation Save America and Pastor Rusty Thomas. Organizers allowed attendees to donate money to the defendants for their legal funds and their families.

Investigative journalist Carl Bernstein reported on Monday night that sources close to President Joe Biden that he has spoken to say that Biden’s cognitive decline is accelerating and that more health-related incidents have happened than the public is aware of.

Bernstein made the remarks during a CNN interview while talking about the fallout from Biden’s disastrous debate last week which has spurred widespread calls for him to step down.

He said that the people that he spoke to “are very close to President Biden — who love him, have supported him and among them are some people who have raised a lot of money for him.”

“They are adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off, that there have been 15-20 occasions in the last year and a half, when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed,” Bernstein said. “And what’s so significant is the people that this is coming from, and also how many people around the president are aware of such incidents, including some reporters, incidentally, who, who have witnessed some of them.”

He said that the people he spoke to have worked very closely with Biden for many years and that they “say that in the last six months particularly, there has been a marked incidence of cognitive decline and physical infirmity.”

Bernstein said that numerous individuals have gone to Biden’s ex-chief of staff Ron Klain over the last year to warn him that there is something wrong with Biden and that they’ve been ignored and “pushed back repeatedly.”

“There was a fundraiser, which he started at the podium and then he became very stiff, according to the people there as if it were almost a kind of rigor mortis,” he said. “This was a year ago almost exactly at the old Four Seasons restaurant on Park Avenue. And he became very stiff and a chair had to be brought for him to do the latter part of the event.”

At the end of the segment, Bernstein seemed to imply that the White House’s physician report on Biden’s health was not honest and that information about Biden’s health was being concealed.

“I mean, obviously, it’d be great if we could have real doctor’s reports from both candidates,” he said. “Well, that’s not gonna happen.”

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Carl Bernstein on CNN right now:

Multiple sources tell him that there have been at least 15 occasions in the last year and a half “where the president has appeared like he did at that horror show (his debate performance).”

Bernstein reports that in the last six months sources… pic.twitter.com/VoSY8xDZpt

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