Posted on 02/13/2025 6:30:41 AM PST by MtnClimber
A culturally significant development has been lost in the flood of news.
In September of 2021, the National School Boards Association sent a shameful letter to part-time President Joe Biden demanding that aggressive parental criticism of local school boards be coded as threats and treated as criminal behavior. If you’ve forgotten that letter, the NSBA specifically asked the Biden administration to use “the PATRIOT Act in regards to domestic terrorism” against parents. Attorney General Merrick Garland quickly gave the NSBA what it wanted, issuing guidance to federal law enforcement to investigate parental criticism as potential federal crimes, under the premise that spirited disagreement is threatening behavior. The resulting controversy tore the NSBA apart, as state boards flooded out of the national group.
Last week, in a move that appears to have made no headlines, Attorney General Pam Bondi rescinded Garland’s memorandum on schools.
Bondi rescinded that DOJ guidance as she sent forth a flood of new policy, and this is how she announced that Garland’s shameful directive had been reversed:
One of the most culturally significant debates of the Biden years just ended with a whimper.
The New York Times, you’ll be shocked to hear, is treating Bondi’s urgent depoliticization of the DOJ as the opposite, warning that she’s politicizing the department:
Hours after being sworn in as President Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi declared to the entire Justice Department work force, “This shameful era ends today.”
That assertion, in one of 14 memos she issued on Wednesday, underscored what many current and former law enforcement officials describe as a major — and alarming — departure from years of Justice Department practice in which it steered clear of political rhetoric. The new tone, they said, suggests the opposite, seeming to promise a campaign of intimidation against career prosecutors and agents viewed as insufficiently loyal to Mr. Trump.
Other news organizations were relatively fair and accurate, if we grade on a curve, and some were thematically dead-on, but none highlighted the ending of the NSBA’s reign of error. In an era when parental rights have been an example of terrifying far-right extremist rhetoric, Pam Bondi has just written an exceptionally important footnote.
When does Garland get charged for his abuse of power? There is a time and a place for vengeance and I think we are there.
The new tone, they said, suggests the opposite, seeming to promise a campaign of intimidation against career prosecutors and agents viewed as insufficiently loyal to Mr. Trump.
All they have is no trump.
“In September of 2021, the National School Boards Association sent a shameful letter to part-time President Joe Biden demanding that aggressive parental criticism of local school boards be coded as threats and treated as criminal behavior.”
For those who don’t know, it was DOJ that REQUESTED that the National School Boards Association (why is that even needed) send the letter out, in order to give DOJ the cover they needed to send FBI agents to harass parents.
What a thoroughly disgusting and un-American turd. We need HIS picture in the dictionary next to the word ‘weasel’
I hope pres Trump makes this fact, that biden and ilk attacked peaceful parents and protestors, and treated them like domestic terrorists, known on a regular basis to point out how tyrwnical the Biden regime, and indeed the whole left party really is
NYT has to run out of $ soon, no?
All that USAID(S) funding going going gone.
The extra S in usaids is for sodomy
School board trustees are no longer the subject of special solicitude, protected like waifs from blunt public criticism.
Hopefully there’s a special on big boy and big girl pants at Kohl’s.
This while REAL terrorists and violent criminals were pouring over the border unvetted, unimpeded and put up in luxury hotels at taxpayer expense.
Garlands spawn are all in the schools curriculum and policy consulting services line of work. A clear and present conflict of interest that should have him disbarred.
Garland ?
What a thoroughly disgusting and un-American turd. We need HIS picture in the dictionary next to the word ‘weasel’
Scary 😮
A term not suited for anything that comes from the NY Slimes.
Good post.
The new administration has probably fixed dozens/hundreds of crazy Democrat-caused problems that we do not even know about yet—and may not find out until some leftist crazies file lawsuits to fight them.
Good. But we need laws that hold.
Bttt.
5.56mm
When we have laws that could impact local school boards, we really have an example of too much federal over reach. Wallace was right to stand in the school house door. That and the insane war in Vietnam was why I voted for him and LeMay.
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