AG
Jeff Landry Calls Biden DOJ Directive as Unlawful and Threatening
BATON
ROUGE, LA – Continuing to defend Louisiana parents and their right to free
speech, Attorney General Jeff Landry today requested the Biden
Administration to immediately cease any actions designed to
intimidate parents from voicing their opinions on the education of their
children.
“It is unconscionable that a President of the United States would weaponize the
federal government against American parents expressing their First Amendment
rights at local school board meetings,” said Attorney General Landry. “Joe
Biden should be focused on the real spike in crime throughout our country, not
on parents speaking up for their kids.”
In a letter to Biden and his appointed Attorney General Merrick Garland, Attorney
General Landry and 16 of his fellow state attorneys general challenge both the
premise and the legality of their DOJ
memorandum calling for the FBI and other federal law enforcement agents to fan
out across the United States and monitor activities in the Nation’s school
districts to suppress what they deem unruly behavior. The Biden Department of
Justice memo echoes a recent National School Board Association letter to the
Biden Administration that laments the rise of parents pushing back against divisive
ideologies, including critical race theory, and that raises the specter of
local protests rising to the level of “domestic terrorism.”
Often, a
parent's first interaction with local government is at a school board meeting,
Attorney General Landry and his colleagues argue. “We as a country should
celebrate their participation in our system of self-government, not silence
them by accusing them of 'domestic terrorism' and threaten them with the
prospect of the FBI knocking on their door to investigate their activities.”
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Louisiana
Attorney General Jeff Landry is joined in the letter by the attorneys general
of Indiana, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri,
Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and
Utah.