A Republican-led panel on the House Judiciary Committee has found “no legitimate basis” for the Justice Department to use federal law enforcement to police concerned parents speaking their minds at local school board meetings.
In an interim report (pdf) published on Tuesday, the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government said evidence so far suggest that Attorney General Merrick Garland was part of a collaborative effort to intimidate parents from openly speaking against the left-wing education agenda favored by the Biden administration.
“It appears, from these documents and the information received previously,” the report stated, “that the Administration’s actions were a political offensive meant to quell swelling discord over controversial education curricula and unpopular school board decisions.”…