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Sen. Hawley Calls on AG Garland to Resign Over Memo Targeting Parents at School Board Meetings
Landon Mion | @landon_mion | Posted: Oct 23, 2021 5:00 PM
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has called for the resignation of Attorney General Merrick Garland over the Department of Justice's memorandum directing the Federal Bureau of Investigations and other law enforcement agencies to "address threats against school administrators, board members, teachers and staff."
"Merrick Garland mobilized the FBI to intimidate parents without legal basis and, we now know, premised on misinformation he didn’t bother to verify," Hawley said in a tweet Friday. "It was a dangerous abuse of authority that has badly compromised the Justice Dept’s integrity and Garland’s. He should resign."
This comes after the National School Boards Association issued an apology to its members Friday over its Sept. 29 letter to the White House requesting "federal law enforcement and other assistance to deal with the growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation" in response to outraged parents showing up to school board meetings to voice their frustration over transgender policies, mask mandates and critical race theory.
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