{"id":902672,"date":"2021-10-20T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=902672"},"modified":"2021-10-20T16:14:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T20:14:33","slug":"michigan-parents-suing-attorney-general-over-doj-school-board-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-parents-suing-attorney-general-over-doj-school-board-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Parents Suing Attorney General Over DOJ School Board Memo"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmichigan-parents-suing-attorney-general-over-doj-school-board-memo%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=902672&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>A group of parents in the State of Michigan are suing Attorney General Merrick Garland over the release of a memo that could ultimately direct the FBI to investigate parents groups and individuals attending school board meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/michigan-parents-sue-attorney-general-memo-directing-fbi-investigate-violent-threats\">reports<\/a> that the conservative American Freedom Law Center is representing families in the school district of Saline, Michigan in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Complaint-Saline-Parents-v-Garland-Filed.pdf\">suit<\/a> seeking an injunction on the DOJ\u2019s \u201crecently announced policy\u2026 to use federal law enforcement resources to silence parents and other private citizens who publicly object to and oppose the divisive, harmful, immoral, and racist policies of the \u2018progressive\u2019 Left that are being implemented by school boards and school officials in public school districts throughout the United States, including in the public schools in Saline, Michigan, and in Loudoun County, Virginia.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The suit is filed in the District Court of Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaintiffs believe, and it is the law in many states, including Michigan and Virginia,&nbsp;as well as a fundamental right under the United States Constitution, that it is the natural,&nbsp;fundamental right of parents and legal guardians to determine and direct the care, teaching, and&nbsp;education of their children,\u201d the lawsuit read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs parents and concerned citizens, Plaintiffs have a right to publicly object to the divisive, false, harmful, and immoral curricula and policies being advanced by SAS [Saline Area Schools] and LCPS [Loudoun County Public Schools]. This right to publicly criticize SAS and LCPS includes the right to do so vociferously and even stridently,\u201d the group noted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The lawsuit continues, criticizing the Attorney General, Virginia Gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, and other progressives. It quotes McAuliffe\u2019s response to a question from a recent Virginia Gubernatorial debate, in which McAuliffe said \u201c[I] don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit continues:<\/p>\n<p><em>Parents and private citizens who fund our public schools through their hard-earned&nbsp;tax dollars, including Plaintiffs, are rightly outraged by the notion that parents must surrender their children, under compulsion of law, to school officials who are bent on indoctrinating these young students with false, divisive, harmful, immoral, and racist dogma and ideology\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Just because parents and legal guardians are forced to send their children to public&nbsp;school, this does not mean that they surrender their rights as parents to direct the education of their children, particularly as it relates to religious, moral, and political issues\u2026&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unfortunately, many public schools, including those in SAS and in LCPS, have&nbsp;come under the influence and power of \u201cprogressives\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of parents in the State of Michigan are suing Attorney General Merrick Garland over the release of a memo that could ultimately direct the FBI to investigate parents groups and individuals attending school board meetings.The Washington Examiner reports that the conservative American Freedom Law Center is representing families in the school district of Saline, Michigan in a suit seeking an injunction on the DOJ\u2019s \u201crecently announced policy\u2026 to use federal law enforcement resources to silence parents and other private citizens who publicly object to and oppose the divisive, harmful, immoral, and racist policies of the \u2018progressive\u2019 Left that are being implemented by school boards and school officials in public school districts throughout the United States, including in the public schools in Saline, Michigan, and in Loudoun County, Virginia.\u201d The suit is filed in the District Court of Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u201cPlaintiffs believe, and it is the law in many states, including Michigan and Virginia,\u00a0as well as a fundamental right under the United States Constitution, that it is the natural,\u00a0fundamental right of parents and legal guardians to determine and direct the care, teaching, and\u00a0education of their children,\u201d the lawsuit read.\u201cAs parents and concerned citizens, Plaintiffs have a right to publicly object to the divisive, false, harmful, and immoral curricula and policies being advanced by SAS [Saline Area Schools] and LCPS [Loudoun County Public Schools]. This right to publicly criticize SAS and LCPS includes the right to do so vociferously and even stridently,\u201d the group noted.\u00a0The lawsuit continues, criticizing the Attorney General, Virginia Gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, and other progressives. It quotes McAuliffe\u2019s response to a question from a recent Virginia Gubernatorial debate, in which McAuliffe said \u201c[I] don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.\u201d The lawsuit continues:Parents and private citizens who fund our public schools through their hard-earned\u00a0tax dollars, including Plaintiffs, are rightly outraged by the notion that parents must surrender their children, under compulsion of law, to school officials who are bent on indoctrinating these young students with false, divisive, harmful, immoral, and racist dogma and ideology\u2026Just because parents and legal guardians are forced to send their children to public\u00a0school, this does not mean that they surrender their rights as parents to direct the education of their children, particularly as it relates to religious, moral, and political issues\u2026\u00a0Unfortunately, many public schools, including those in SAS and in LCPS, have\u00a0come under the influence and power of \u201cprogressives\u201d who are using these publicly-funded schools to promote the divisive, false, harmful, immoral, and racist agenda of the \u201cprogressive\u201d Left. Rather than focusing on core subjects such as reading, writing, arithmetic, and science, these schools are using their power of compulsion to indoctrinate children with a divisive, false, harmful, immoral, and racist agenda\u2026Parents and concerned citizens, including Plaintiffs, rightfully object to the\u00a0implementation of such divisive, false, harmful, immoral, and racist policies and programs in their public schools. And these parents and citizens, including Plaintiffs, rightfully express their outrage and objections to these programs during school board meetings\u2014meetings which are open to the public and open for public comment\u2014and in other public forums. Indeed, school board meetings are public forums where speech touching upon matters of public concern is fully protected by the First Amendment.The memo from AG Garland to the FBI was published on Oct. 4. In it, Garland instructs the directors of the FBI and the Executive Office of US Attorneys, the Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, and the US Attorneys, to investigate a \u201cdisturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff\u201d of public schools throughout the nation. The memo was written in response to a letter from the National School Boards Association to President Joe Biden asking for Federal assistance \u201cto deal with the growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation.\u201d The letter lists a number of alleged incidents of intimidation, including the June 22 arrest of Scott Smith, the father of an LCPS student, who, the Daily Wire reported, attended the meeting to hear testimony on a proposed gender-neutral bathroom policy after his daughter was sexually assaulted during school.\u00a0\u201cContrary to the Attorney General\u2019s false assertion, there is no widespread criminality at school board meetings where parents and concerned citizens have expressed their opposition and outrage to the \u201cprogressive\u201d agenda being forced upon their children in the public schools,\u201d the lawsuit says. \u201cThere is no widespread threat of criminal violence at these meetings. Instead, these meetings involve private citizens expressing their opposition to harmful policies being considered by government officials [and] petitioning their government officials for a redress of grievances, as is their right to do under the First Amendment.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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