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House Republicans call on Garland to rescind school board memo
The Hill ^ | 10/25/21 03:22 PM EDT | BY HARPER NEIDIG

Posted on 10/25/2021 1:08:12 PM PDT by RandFan

A group of House Republicans is calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to rescind a recent Justice Department memo aimed at combating a rise in threats against school board members and other local education officials.

Nineteen Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, who last week attacked Garland over the policy during a hearing, signed a letter on Monday urging him to revoke the memo.

"During your testimony, you sidestepped the obvious effect of your ill-conceived memorandum and the chilling effect that invoking the full weight of the federal law enforcement apparatus would have on parents’ protected First Amendment speech," the Republicans' letter reads.

"Parents have an undisputed right to direct the upbringing and education of their children, especially as school boards attempt to install controversial curricula," they added. "Local law enforcement—and not the FBI—are the appropriate authorities to address any local threats or violence."

The Justice Department did not immediately respond when asked for comment.

Garland announced the memo earlier this month, directing federal officials to establish lines of communication with local school boards and law enforcement for reporting threats.

Republicans have painted the memo as a draconian Biden administration policy intended to silence parents' dissent against incorporating racial justice material into schools' curricula, and criticized threat-reporting efforts as an FBI "snitch line."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: arrestgarland; criticalracetheory; crt; fbi; firstamendment; garland; harperneidig; merrickgarland; thehill; theshill

1 posted on 10/25/2021 1:08:12 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Schumer will call this “fake outrage.”


2 posted on 10/25/2021 1:09:44 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: RandFan

Rescind a memo?

this guy turned the FBI against parents without a shred of evidence, or investigation of any kind. Instead just putting them in motion upon reading a memo from a lefty organization.

If that dont shock the average person, nothing will.

Fire the ahole and put him on trial.


3 posted on 10/25/2021 1:32:54 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: RandFan

Recind hell. This POS needs to resign.


4 posted on 10/25/2021 1:49:39 PM PDT by mort56
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To: RandFan

Do they have a Plan B for when the DOJ just ignores them? Besides using it for fundraising emails?


5 posted on 10/25/2021 2:09:18 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: RandFan

Remember folks, Garland was the guy Obama tried to sell to us as a “moderate”.


6 posted on 10/25/2021 2:10:58 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: RandFan
Rescind it? They need to recreate it in bronze and mount it at every entrance to Federal Department of Justice buildings as well as every school throughout the country. Merrick Garland crossed the line into Pfascism and needs to have that kept for posterity.

This wasn't some off-hand comment from someone in the Propaganda Media, this was authored by the Attorney General. It's a piece of American history. Don't let anyone bury it.

7 posted on 10/25/2021 2:27:44 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: RandFan

Merrick Garland should recind that memo, even if it bucks Joe Biden. It is wrong to do, to interfere with people’s free speech and it violates the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It smacks of Socialism and Communism, but that seems to be the way the democrats are taking us. 3 years and 3 months to go with these clowns!


8 posted on 10/25/2021 2:32:49 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: RandFan

I misspelled rescind. I need a proofreader!


9 posted on 10/25/2021 2:35:24 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

Garland is a rubber stamp. None of this originated in his head.


10 posted on 10/25/2021 3:04:30 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: RandFan

Or what? Another strongly worded letter?


11 posted on 10/25/2021 3:29:08 PM PDT by DMD13
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To: RandFan

He ain’t gonna do squat. Won’t rescind it. Won’t take any action on it. The Dems are just messing with us. I don’t know if Judy and he are related, but you may as well look “somewhere over the rainbow” for Meric to do anything but posture. He’s a TV AG.


12 posted on 10/25/2021 4:35:33 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Let's go, Brandon!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The (S)Hill's Harper Neidig writes "racial justice" instead of "critical race theory" -- Partisan Media Shill alert.

13 posted on 10/25/2021 8:44:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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