Late Monday evening, the nineteen Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a five-page letter to ninety-three U.S. Attorneys requesting all documents and information regarding “the troubling attempts by the Department of Justice and the White House to use the heavy hand of federal law enforcement to target concerned parents at local school board meetings and chill their protected First Amendment activity.”
The targeting of parents began on September 29, when “the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to President Joe Biden requesting help from the federal government with concerned parents voicing their opinions at school board meetings.” In the letter, the NSBA stated that “malice, violence, and threats” against school officials “could be the equivalent of a form of domestic terrorism or hate crimes.”
Also cited were several interactions at school board meetings, “none of which rose to the level of domestic terrorism” and most of which didn’t involve threats or violence. “Most notably, as an example of domestic terrorism, the NSBA cited an incident in which a father angrily confronted members at a school board meeting in Loudoun County, Virginia about the heinous sexual assault of his daughter.”
