{"id":2194932,"date":"2024-03-07T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-leadership-accepted-left-wing-briefing-calling-moms-for-liberty-extremist\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T20:11:01","slug":"justice-department-leadership-accepted-left-wing-briefing-calling-moms-for-liberty-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-leadership-accepted-left-wing-briefing-calling-moms-for-liberty-extremist\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department leadership accepted left-wing briefing calling Moms for Liberty \u2018extremist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjustice-department-leadership-accepted-left-wing-briefing-calling-moms-for-liberty-extremist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2194932&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>EXCLUSIVE \u2014 Staff at the U.S. Department of Justice accepted a \u201cYear in Hate and Extremism\u201d briefing from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, during which the parental rights group Moms for Liberty was characterized as a \u201creactionary anti-student inclusion\u201d and \u201canti-government extremist\u201d group.<\/p>\n<p> The SPLC offered a briefing to the DOJ on its annual extremism report last summer, shortly after designating Moms for Liberty an \u201cextremist\u201d organization \u2014 a designation it boasted to DOJ officials as the first of its kind.<\/p>\n<p> Emails obtained by the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Oversight Project through a public records request show DOJ officials interested in the briefing that claimed pro-parent groups like Moms for Liberty are \u201cworking to burnish connections to far-right politicians and normalize assaults on inclusive education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The Justice Department confirmed to the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that it accepted the briefing from the SPLC, although it did not specify when.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe DOJ calling parents domestic terrorists, the SPLC, trying to label us as a hate group, having the SPLC, an outside organization, giving briefings to the Department of Justice about moms and dads that are concerned about the fact that the majority of our kids in schools are not learning how to read is shocking and should be shocking to the American public,\u201d Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told the Washington Examiner in an interview. \u201cThe weaponization of the American government against the people themselves is no joke, and we should be paying attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The SPLC is known for designating mainstream conservative organizations as \u201chate\u201d groups or \u201cextremists,\u201d comparing groups such as the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Family Research Council to neo-Nazis and white supremacist organizations.<\/p>\n<p> DOJ officials were approached by Michael Lieberman, SPLC senior policy counsel on hate and extremism, in early June of last year to \u201carrange a special briefing for select [Civil Rights Division] staff\u201d and provide a first look at the group\u2019s upcoming public designation of Moms for Liberty as an extremist organization, which placed the parents\u2019 rights group on the same level as the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n<p> After DOJ officials in the agency\u2019s Civil Rights Division shopped the briefing around within their division and to the separate DOJ office of the Criminal Division, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Robert Moossy told his colleague that \u201cthe briefing makes sense,\u201d according to a June 7 email exchange.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis is even more proof that the highest levels of the United States government have put a target on the back of Moms for Liberty and other parents who have committed no crime,\u201d Oversight Project Executive Director Mike Howell told the Washington Examiner. \u201cThis perverted weaponization of government serves no legitimate end besides satiating the bloodthirsty radical left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Lieberman, the SPLC counsel, provided the DOJ with a preview of the briefing, which stated that \u201cschools have become a primary target for locally driven extremist mobilization\u201d and defined \u201canti-government extremist\u201d as \u201corganizations or a collection of individuals that \u2014 based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities \u2014 believe the federal government is tyrannical and traffics in conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cA consistent tactic of these groups has been to attack public education and to attempt to ban books from classrooms and libraries based on what they deem inappropriate \u2014 because the content addresses race, LGBTQ issues and gender,\u201d the SPLC briefing preview continued. <\/p>\n<p> Most books subjected to the kind of \u201cbans\u201d that left-wing organizations are frustrated by have explicit depictions of sexual acts and pornography, which some school districts have nonetheless determined is appropriate content for children. Groups such as the SPLC have argued that blocking public schools from distributing such graphic content to children is an affront to LGBT rights.<\/p>\n<p> Among other policy recommendations, the SPLC said in its preview of the briefing it offered DOJ officials that the government must \u201cfiercely oppose efforts to impose educational gag orders on teaching painful truths about our nation\u2019s racialized history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt\u2019s really shocking for, I think, the American people, American moms and dads, who are concerned about what\u2019s happening in our public schools, the indoctrination that we\u2019re seeing, to be considered extreme \u2026 for addressing it and bringing it to light,\u201d Justice said. \u201cThe Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate machine in and of itself, and has labeled a number of different organizations, including Moms for Liberty, with this anti-government tag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI think it\u2019s really interesting that we\u2019re actually working within the government process, you know, we endorse in school board races in the past two years, we\u2019ve helped over 365 people get elected to school board[s],\u201d she continued. \u201cI think we actually embody the very best about what it means to be an involved American in our governmental processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Confirmation that the DOJ accepted the briefing comes as other agencies in the Biden administration, including the Department of Education, have been keeping tabs on Moms for Liberty as well.<\/p>\n<p> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p> The Oversight Project filed a lawsuit against the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations on behalf of Moms for Liberty last fall to produce records related to the Biden administration\u2019s coordination with the SPLC in its attacks on the parents\u2019 rights group.<\/p>\n<p> The SPLC did not respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE \u2014 Staff at the U.S. Department of Justice accepted a \u201cYear in Hate and Extremism\u201d briefing from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, during which the parental rights group Moms for Liberty was characterized as a \u201creactionary anti-student inclusion\u201d and \u201canti-government extremist\u201d group. 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