{"id":929278,"date":"2021-10-27T16:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T20:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=929278"},"modified":"2021-10-27T16:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T20:59:45","slug":"watch-tom-cotton-rips-ag-merrick-garland-over-school-boards-memo-you-should-resign-in-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tom-cotton-rips-ag-merrick-garland-over-school-boards-memo-you-should-resign-in-disgrace\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Tom Cotton Rips AG Merrick Garland Over School Boards Memo: \u2018You Should Resign In Disgrace\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\">32<\/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%2Fwatch-tom-cotton-rips-ag-merrick-garland-over-school-boards-memo-you-should-resign-in-disgrace%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=929278&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>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) blistered Attorney General Merrick Garland, telling the Biden administration cabinet official he should \u201cresign in disgrace\u201d for directing the FBI to investigate and potentially crack down on \u201cparents at school board meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton questioned Garland over the October 4 memo during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. Cotton pushed the attorney general over the basis for the memo, which Garland has justified by pointing to \u201cnews reports\u201d and a September letter from the National School Boards Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou keep citing news reports and that\u2019s the most prominent news report that anyone in America has seen. That refers to Scott Smith, whose 15-year-old daughter was raped. She was raped in a bathroom by a boy wearing girl\u2019s clothes and the Loudoun County school board covered it up because it would\u2019ve interfered with their transgender policy during Pride Month,\u201d Cotton said toward the end of his roughly 8-minute long round of questioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that man, Scott Smith, because he went to a school board and tried to defend his daughter\u2019s rights, was condemned internationally. Do you apologize to Scott Smith and his 15-year-old daughter, judge?\u201d Cotton asked.<\/p>\n<p>Garland responded: \u201cSenator, anyone whose child was raped \u2013 the most horrific crime I can imagine \u2013 is certainly entitled and protected by the First Amendment to protest to their school board about this.\u201d Garland repeatedly denied that the \u201cnews reports\u201d that served as the basis for the October 4 memo were not the same news reports referenced in the NSBA letter, despite also referring to the letter to justify the directive to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he was cited by the school board association as a domestic terrorist which we now know that letter and those reports were the basis for your directive,\u201d Cotton pressed, though the letter uses Smith as just one example of individual behavior that could give rise to actions resembling \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d or \u201chate crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garland denied Cotton again: \u201cNo, senator. That\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is shameful. Judge, this is shameful,\u201d Cotton said, ending his period of questioning. \u201cThis testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garland was then given time to have the last word in the exchange. Garland said:<\/p>\n<p><em>I wasn\u2019t sure if there was a question there, but let me be clear. The news reports I was talking about are not the news reports in that letter. They<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) blistered Attorney General Merrick Garland, telling the Biden administration cabinet official he should \u201cresign in disgrace\u201d for directing the FBI to investigate and potentially crack down on \u201cparents at school board meetings.\u201dCotton questioned Garland over the October 4 memo during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. Cotton pushed the attorney general over the basis for the memo, which Garland has justified by pointing to \u201cnews reports\u201d and a September letter from the National School Boards Association.\u201cYou keep citing news reports and that\u2019s the most prominent news report that anyone in America has seen. That refers to Scott Smith, whose 15-year-old daughter was raped. She was raped in a bathroom by a boy wearing girl\u2019s clothes and the Loudoun County school board covered it up because it would\u2019ve interfered with their transgender policy during Pride Month,\u201d Cotton said toward the end of his roughly 8-minute long round of questioning.\u201cAnd that man, Scott Smith, because he went to a school board and tried to defend his daughter\u2019s rights, was condemned internationally. Do you apologize to Scott Smith and his 15-year-old daughter, judge?\u201d Cotton asked.Garland responded: \u201cSenator, anyone whose child was raped \u2013 the most horrific crime I can imagine \u2013 is certainly entitled and protected by the First Amendment to protest to their school board about this.\u201d Garland repeatedly denied that the \u201cnews reports\u201d that served as the basis for the October 4 memo were not the same news reports referenced in the NSBA letter, despite also referring to the letter to justify the directive to the FBI.\u201cBut he was cited by the school board association as a domestic terrorist which we now know that letter and those reports were the basis for your directive,\u201d Cotton pressed, though the letter uses Smith as just one example of individual behavior that could give rise to actions resembling \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d or \u201chate crimes.\u201dGarland denied Cotton again: \u201cNo, senator. That\u2019s wrong.\u201d\u201cThis is shameful. Judge, this is shameful,\u201d Cotton said, ending his period of questioning. \u201cThis testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge.\u201dGarland was then given time to have the last word in the exchange. Garland said:I wasn\u2019t sure if there was a question there, but let me be clear. The news reports I was talking about are not the news reports in that letter. They were other news reports that everybody here has heard about, subsequent reports that everybody has heard about. There is nothing in this memorandum, and I wish if senators are concerned about this, they would quote my words. This memorandum is not about parents being able to object in their school boards. They are protected by the First Amendment. As long as there are no threats of violence, they are completely protected. So parents can object to school boards about curriculum, about the treatment of their children, about school policies, all of that is 100 percent protected by the First Amendment, and there is nothing in this memorandum contrary to that. We are only trying to prevent violence against school officials.Complete exchange between @SenTomCotton and Attorney Merrick General Garland on school board memo.Cotton concludes: &#8220;Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, Judge.&#8221; pic.twitter.com\/PunUjPUwte\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) October 27, 2021The 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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