Three years later, the Justice Department’s parent-silencing campaign persists

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It’s been three years since Attorney General Merrick Garland signed his infamous memo instructing the Department of Justice to target and investigate concerned parents for harassment, intimidation, and “violent threats” against school boards and administrators. 

Yet despite a congressional determination that the memo had “no legitimate basis,” it has never been rescinded, meaning it still hangs over activists’ heads like the sword of Damocles, a constant reminder of the federal government’s sinister agenda to demonize and silence parents’ engagement in their children’s education.   

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