Thirteen Republican states have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration under the Freedom of Information Act, seeking records of any surveillance of parents protesting at school board meetings conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is pursuing a lawsuit against President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, alleging that administration officials failed to comply with FOIA requests.
According to the lawsuit, Indiana, Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah have signed on. Fox News Digital News.
On September 29, the National Association of School Boards sent a letter to the White House asking for federal facilitate to deal with (*13*) against school board officials, which the organization likened to “a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.” The NSBA also asked the federal government to operate the Patriot Act to prevent alleged threats of violence during school board meetings.
The NSBA apologized for the language used in its letter.
Emails obtained in January by the nonprofit Parents Defending Education show Education Secretary Miguel Cardona requested the NSBA for the letter. However, the Department of Education denies that Cardona requested the letter.
Just days after the NSBA sent a letter to the White House, Garland released a statement note On October 4, he directed the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to “deal with threats against school administrators, board members, teachers and staff.”
During October testimony before Congress, Garland refused to withdraw his memo even after the NSBA apologized for his letter because he did not adopt the same language. This was despite his testimony that the memo was prepared in response to the NSBA letter.
“Attorney General Garland testified in Congress that his memorandum was based on a now debunked and rescinded letter prepared by individuals within the federal government (EOP, ED, and DOJ) working with the National School Boards Association (“NSBA”) dated September 29, 2021 ” – we read in the lawsuit.
“This NSBA letter to President Biden urged him to invoke the “PATRIOT Act with respect to domestic terrorism,” arguing that as “acts of malice, violence and threats against public school officials escalate, the classification of these heinous acts of action may be tantamount to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes,” he continues.
Emails obtained in November by Parents Defending Education show that the NSBA had been in contact with the White House and the Department of Justice for several weeks before its September 29 letter.
