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GOP Sens. Call Out AG Garland for 'Intimidation,' 'Threat' to Free Speech
Attorney General Merrick Garland (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 06 October 2021 03:53 PM
GOP Sens. Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley are demanding answers and calling Attorney General Merrick Garland's mobilizing of the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute school board protests a form of "intimidation" and a threat to free speech.
Of particular concern to Cotton is that Garland's memo announcing the initiatives were a "tacit approval" to explosive claims made by the National School Boards Association.
"The NSBA letter requested that the Biden administration examine whether these purported acts violated several statutes, including the Patriot Act and the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act," Cotton wrote in a letter to Garland. "The letter further asserted that these acts may amount to a form of 'domestic terrorism.'
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