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 ...
Schumer will call this “fake outrage.”
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.
Recind hell. This POS needs to resign.
Do they have a Plan B for when the DOJ just ignores them? Besides using it for fundraising emails?
Remember folks, Garland was the guy Obama tried to sell to us as a “moderate”.
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.
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!
I misspelled rescind. I need a proofreader!
Garland is a rubber stamp. None of this originated in his head.
Or what? Another strongly worded letter?
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.
The (S)Hill's Harper Neidig writes "racial justice" instead of "critical race theory" -- Partisan Media Shill alert.
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