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Republicans on House Judiciary panel focus on first White House targetWith the House Judiciary Committee's gavel and subpoena power close at hand, Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, is getting ready to launch his first investigations of the Biden administration, starting Friday with what he has recently referred to as the administration's "anti-parent directives." It's the type of request from House Republicans that the White House is describing as politically motivated, as Republicans prepare to take control of the House.
In a letter obtained by CBS News, Jordan and Republicans on the panel made their first request for testimony and documents from the Biden White House since the GOP won control of the chamber. They wrote to White House chief of staff Ron Klain to ask White House officials to testify at the beginning of the next Congress, as part of a House GOP probe of what they say is the administration's "misuse of federal criminal and counterterrorism resources to target concerned parents at school board meetings."
House Judiciary Republicans want to know more about any actions the Biden administration took regarding an October 2021 memo from Attorney General Merrick Garland noting the "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff" and directing the FBI and U.S. attorneys to meet with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial leaders to address strategies for dealing with those threats.
The memo followed a September 2021 letter from the National School Boards Association asking the administration to investigate threats of violence against school board members that "could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-on-house-judiciary-panel-focus-on-first-white-house-target/ar-AA14h5Gg
Maybe the parents of the molested OSU wrestlers should have threatened domestic terrorism.
UTUSN
(70,748 posts)republianmushroom
(13,718 posts)Initech
(100,107 posts)They only care about creating ratings and content for right wing talk show hosts. Fuck them all.
Blue Owl
(50,522 posts)Maybe he'll be hiding in YOUR locker room!
Fullduplexxx
(7,872 posts)moondust
(20,013 posts)Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.
Kevin McCarthys Plan to Benghazi the Bidens
EarlG
(21,972 posts)They plan to investigate Merrick Garland because he wanted the Justice Department to deal with a "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff?"
Like, they expect people to be mad because Garland wanted to protect teachers from threats of violence?
Do they think it's a scandal that he wanted to do this...?
moonshinegnomie
(2,494 posts)their response?
1) executive privilege
2) plead the 5th
3) just refuse to testify and if teh house tries to prosecute for contempt it goes to the justice department to be ignored...
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)Maybe that's too optomistic, but he is clearly a stupid inept little man with zero leadership skills.