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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-catholic-church-child-abuse-law-clergy-priests-1235388032/

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On the morning of May 2, 2025, supporters of Washington Senate Bill 5375 were ushered through the massive concrete arches and up the grand staircases of the Washington state Capitol the veins of Alaskan Tokeen marble guiding them past oil portraits and century-old busts to the governors conference room on the second floor.

Inside, amid the dark wood paneling and gleaming seal of the state, Bob Ferguson, Washingtons new governor and former attorney general, addressed the small crowd of advocates, lawmakers, and child-abuse survivors who had gathered behind him.

Im a Catholic as some of you know. Im aware of my upbringing, he said, before adding plainly: For me this is very clear legislation and important legislation.

Ferguson uncapped a blue felt-tip Paper Mate and, with the stroke of the pen, signed into law one of the most consequential child protection measures in recent memory, mandating the states clergy for the first time in 50 years to report child abuse.

Within 72 hours, Trumps Justice Department, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, had launched a First Amendment probe into what it called an anti-Catholic law.