The bill, dubbed the Preventing Child Trafficking Act, would force the DOJ and HHS to adopt anti-child-trafficking recommendations proposed by the United States Government Accountability Office in 2023.
The suit comes after months of DOJ demands for complete state voting registration lists, which Nevada and other states have repeatedly denied and called intimidation in an effort to influence elections.
The subcommittee will examine how the SPLC coordinated with the Biden administration in the alleged targeting of Christian and conservative Americans to infringe on their constitutional rights to free speech and free association.
The Kayla Hamilton Act was passed in a 225-201 vote, which saw just seven Democrats join Republicans in passing the bill. The bill is named after a 20-year-old woman who was killed by a 16-year-old illegal migrant in 2022.
"We agreed much more than I had anticipated," Candace Owens said after Charlie Kirk's widow had asked her to stop promoting conspiracy theories about his assassination.
"The United States will continue to use all available tools to protect our nation and stop the campaigns of violence and terror committed by international cartels and transnational criminal organizations," the department said.
Officials in Gov. Gavin Newsom's office have said that Mitchell can't be compelled to testify. "We're going to win on the merits," Newsom said on Monday. "We're very confident we will be successful."