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‘The Garland Memorandum was the product of pressure by senior leadership to … bring federal pressure to bear on parents.’

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This is what weaponization looks like.

The FBI investigating a mom because she is a gun owner and belonged to a “right-wing mom’s group.” Federal agents harassing a dad because he “rail[ed] against the government.” 

Five years ago today, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland released his memorandum laying out what his corrupt Department of Justice could do to assist in investigating and prosecuting the parents accused of being “domestic terrorists” for speaking out against far-left initiatives and draconian Covid policies at school board meetings. The Democrat AG’s memo followed a National School Boards Association (NSBA) letter begging President Joe Biden and his politically-driven Department of Justice to recognize the “immediate threat” these parents posed to America’s public schools and their leaders. The letter urged Biden to treat the parents’ confrontational behavior like it was “equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism.” 

We know that the NSBA, after a wave of criticism from affiliates, was forced to apologize for the letter from School Boards Association President Viola Garcia and interim CEO Chip Slaven. The association acknowledged “there was no justification for some of the language included in the letter” and that the executive office had not consulted with state affiliates. 

Despite the NSBA’s admission, Garland stubbornly refused to rescind his memo, and federal law enforcement officials opened 25 preliminary assessment files — Guardian assessments — into spurious “school board threats.” Six of the assessments operated out of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, 17 involved the Criminal Investigations Division, and two involved the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. It appears not a one of the targets was prosecuted. 

Now, thanks to a new DOJ report, we know that the Biden White House was squarely behind Garland’s effort to find a federal “hook” to prosecute parents and school policy protesters with federal crimes. That finding contradicts a National School Boards Association independent review that found no collusion with the Biden administration. 

“The Garland Memorandum was the product of pressure by senior leadership to support the NSBA and to bring federal pressure to bear on parents protesting school districts that had enacted certain policies,” asserts “The 2026 Report to Expose the Weaponization of Government Against Parents in Schools,” released by Attorney General Todd Blanche on Monday morning. 

And a very reluctant DOJ finally bowed to political pressure to push a plan of attack that agents described as “stupid,” “ridiculous,” and a “partisan exercise aimed at those who do not support the Administration.” 

“Officials in the Department of Justice, including both career officials and Biden Administration political appointees, initially pushed back on doing so, including by questioning the constitutionality of the request,” the report states. “Notwithstanding the internal pushback, the Department moved ahead with issuing the Garland Memorandum based on pressure from Biden Administration officials in the White House and leadership at the Office of the Deputy Attorney General (‘ODAG’) at the Department of Justice.” 

‘A Political Offensive’

The NSBA letter to Biden, sent on Sept. 29, 2021, followed  months of growing frustration from parents across the country over closed schools, mask policies, vaccine mandates, and social reengineering curricula driven by racist Critical Race Theory instruction in classrooms. Some local school board officials didn’t care for the tone........

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