{"id":954057,"date":"2021-11-02T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=954057"},"modified":"2021-11-02T14:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:14:18","slug":"house-republicans-press-us-attorneys-on-garlands-school-board-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-press-us-attorneys-on-garlands-school-board-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Press US Attorneys on Garland\u2019s School Board Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fhouse-republicans-press-us-attorneys-on-garlands-school-board-task-force%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=954057&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--><div readability=\"29.209302325581\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Attorney general authorized law enforcement to discuss monitoring school board meetings<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236026985-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236026985-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236026985-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236026985-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236026985-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236026985-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236026985-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236026985-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tRep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) questions U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 November 2, 2021 2:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"87.431869188843\">\n<p>House Republicans are requesting information from U.S. attorneys&#8217; offices regarding their involvement with the Biden administration\u2019s effort to monitor school board meetings for potential acts of domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent letters to all 94 U.S. attorneys&#8217; offices Monday asking for information about discussions authorized by Attorney General Merrick Garland to address what he called a &#8220;disturbing trend&#8221; of violence at school board meetings. On Oct. 4, Garland directed the FBI, U.S. attorneys, and the Justice Department\u2019s civil rights and national security divisions to join local law enforcement officials to discuss strategies to prevent the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Garland\u2019s action came days after the National School Boards Association called on President Joe Biden to deploy the FBI to monitor school board meetings for potential acts of domestic terrorism. The association was in contact with the White House and Department of Education in the weeks leading up to the letter, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/white-house-knew-about-letter-that-compared-parents-to-domestic-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The timeline has raised questions about whether the association and White House colluded to draft the letter as a predicate to forming a federal task force to scrutinize the meetings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are continuing to investigate the troubling attempts by the Department of Justice and the White House to use the heavy hand of federal law enforcement to target concerned parents at local school board meetings and chill their protected First Amendment activity,&#8221; Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) and other House Judiciary Republicans wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2021-11-01-HJC-GOP-to-US-Attorneys-re-Oct-4-Memo-COMBINED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the letters<\/a> to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans say the task force is aimed at preventing parents from protesting controversial policies, including student mask mandates and the teaching of left-wing curricula like critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Concerned parents voicing their strong opposition to controversial curricula at local schools are not domestic terrorists. Parents have an undisputed right to direct the upbringing and education of their children,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans say the federal government should not monitor local school board meetings, and that any acts of violence should be dealt with by local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must not tolerate the use of the federal law enforcement apparatus to intimidate and silence parents using their constitutional rights to advocate for their child\u2019s future,&#8221; the Republican members wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Garland testified on Oct. 21 that he was unaware whether prosecutors had complied with his memo, though he said he hoped that they would.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Republicans have also asked the administration about the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/school-board-association-president-got-federal-post-after-infamous-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a> to appoint Viola Garcia, the president of the National School Boards Association, to the Education Department\u2019s National Assessment Governing Board, which sets federal standards for a nationwide student achievement test. Garcia was appointed to the position on Oct. 1, days after she cosigned the letter to Biden requesting federal help in monitoring local school board meetings.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Attorney general authorized law enforcement to discuss monitoring school board meetings  Rep. 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