Republicans Are Losing Their Minds Because the DOJ Wants to Help Protect Threatened School Officials
Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared before Senate Judiciary Committee. He ran into a buzzsaw of outraged Republican senators who took the attorney general to task for
allowing federal law enforcement to consult with local law enforcement about how to handle a rash of violent threats against school board officials.
In question was an Oct. 4 memo in which Garland directed the FBI and U.S. attorneys offices to discuss strategies for addressing the increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nations public schools. The memo also called for the creation of a task force to determine how federal enforcement tools can be used to prosecute these crimes, and ways to assist state, Tribal, territorial and local law enforcement where threats of violence may not constitute federal crimes.
The memo followed a plea from the National School Boards Association for the Biden administration do something about the increase in physical threats school officials are receiving in response to mask mandates and, as the NSBA put it in the memo, propaganda purporting the false inclusion of critical race theory within classroom instruction and curricula. The NSBA last week apologized for some of the language it used in its letter, but Garland on Wednesday stood by his Oct. 4 memo, arguing the threats still warrant federal intervention.
The letter that was subsequently sent does not change the associations concern about violence with threats of violence, Garland said. It alters some of the language in the letter language in the letter that we did not rely on and is not contained in my own memorandum. The only thing that Justice Department is concerned about violence and threats of violence.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/republicans-losing-minds-because-doj-183736820.html
Saw a couple of videos where Cancun Cruz and Pencil Neck Hawley tried to make it sound like the big bad gubmint was picking on the parents.