BREAKING: Emails show DOJ sought ‘federal hook’ to go after school board protest parents

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From Fox News: A conservative legal group revealed a tranche of correspondence on Friday from the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) shedding new light on the behind-the-scenes discussions about a controversial directive former Attorney General Merrick Garland gave about school boards.

The document dump included an email from a deputy attorney general aide that said the DOJ was searching for a “federal hook” to use to address a letter by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) raising alarm about parents who were, at the time, expressing outrage at school board meetings across the country over COVID-19 mandates, critical race theory, and transgender policies.

“We’re aware; the challenge here is finding a federal hook. But WH has been in touch about whether we can assist in some form or fashion,” deputy attorney general aide Kevin Chambers wrote to a colleague on Oct. 1.

Garland issued a directive to the FBI in October 2021 about a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” against school administrators.


Conservative legal organization America First Legal was the first to uncover the bombshell emails.

AFL president Gene Hamilton announced, “Members of the Biden Administration still have not adequately been held accountable for trying to deprive the American people of fundamental rights. Our team at @America1stLegal has been on this matter for years. We aren’t giving up.”

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) reacted to the report, writing, “Parents aren’t terrorists—and they have every right to be upset about school boards pushing harmful lockdown policies and radical left-wing ideology. The Biden DOJ’s attempts to target them go against everything America stands for.”

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