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Republicans on House Judiciary panel focus on 1st target: the school board memo
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Date: November 19th, 2022 4:55 PM Author: Milky supple address sound barrier
Republicans on House Judiciary panel focus on first White House target BY KATHRYN WATSON
NOVEMBER 18, 2022 / 11:30 AM / CBS NEWS
With the House Judiciary Committee's gavel and subpoena power close at hand, Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, is getting ready to launch his first investigations of the Biden administration, starting Friday with what he has recently referred to as the administration's "anti-parent directives." It's the type of request from House Republicans that the White House is describing as politically motivated, as Republicans prepare to take control of the House.
In a letter obtained by CBS News, Jordan and Republicans on the panel made their first request for testimony and documents from the Biden White House since the GOP won control of the chamber. They wrote to White House chief of staff Ron Klain to ask White House officials to testify at the beginning of the next Congress, as part of a House GOP probe of what they say is the administration's "misuse of federal criminal and counterterrorism resources to target concerned parents at school board meetings."
House Judiciary Republicans want to know more about any actions the Biden administration took regarding an October 2021 memo from Attorney General Merrick Garland noting the "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff" and directing the FBI and U.S. attorneys to meet with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial leaders to address strategies for dealing with those threats.
The memo followed a September 2021 letter from the National School Boards Association asking the administration to investigate threats of violence against school board members that "could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes."
Jordan and Republicans on the committee believe employees within the Executive Office of the President were involved in discussions surrounding that National School Boards Association letter and earlier this year requested documents and information about the White House's "collusion with the NSBA."
Republicans on the committee allege the administration is using law enforcement to "chill" parents' First-Amendment rights, although the letter doesn't call parents who protest school board meetings "domestic terrorists," as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has claimed, as an Associated Press fact check noted.
"The American people … deserve much more accountability and transparency about the Biden administration's anti-parent directives," Jordan said in an Oct. 17 letter to Klain, asking the White House to preserve all records related to the matter.
Jordan's Friday letter requested testimony from Mary C. Wall, the senior adviser for the COVID-19 response team; Julie C. Rodridguez, director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs; Katherine Pantangco, policy adviser for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs; and Nezly Silva, senior policy analyst for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
The request for testimony is voluntary — for now. But if the officials don't agree to testify and provide records, in January, when Republicans control the House, "the committee may be forced to resort to compulsory process to obtain the material we require," Friday's letter says. Jordan's efforts to obtain records related to the National School Boards Association letter and Justice Department memo have so far been unsuccessful.
The White House suggested congressional Republicans don't have their priorities in the right place.
"Instead of working with President Biden to address issues important to the American people, like lower costs, congressional Republicans' top priority is to go after President Biden with politically-motivated attacks chock full of long-debunked conspiracy theories," said Ian Sams, spokesman for the White House Counsel's office. "President Biden is not going to let these political attacks distract him from focusing on Americans' priorities, and we hope congressional Republicans will join us in tackling them instead of wasting time and resources on political revenge."
Jordan's letter to the White House Friday is just the beginning of the array of probes the House is expected to undertake once the 118th Congress is seated and Republicans have control. Jordan's committee and Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee also plan to investigate Hunter Biden and the president himself. Jordan has sent the White House letters requesting testimony and information on a number of topics since Mr. Biden took office, despite Republicans' current lack of subpoena authority.
It remains to be seen exactly how many seats Republicans will have in the 118th Congress, although CBS News has projected the GOP will have between 218-223 seats. To control the lower chamber, they need 218. A handful of races remain to be decided.
Not all Republicans believe a focus on multiple investigations into the Biden administration and Hunter Biden is the way to go. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, of Utah, appeared to encourage the party to avoid such types of hearings, and instead, focus on things like inflation, the debt, spending, and entitlement and immigration reform.
"Two roads diverge before this potential GOP majority," Romney wrote last week. "The one 'less traveled by' would be to pass bills that would make things better for the American people. The more tempting and historically more frequented road would be to pursue pointless investigations, messaging bills, threats and government shutdowns."
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Date: November 19th, 2022 4:56 PM Author: Arrogant Mustard Patrolman very funny sentence: "It's the type of request from House Republicans that the White House is describing as politically motivated, as Republicans prepare to take control of the House." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#45518280) |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 4:58 PM Author: Milky supple address sound barrier well, the J6 committee had some kind of lawmaking purpose re: sedition, insurrection, etc. what's the lawmaking purpose here—they're going to make obscene, threatening, etc. speech directed to school boards privileged from criminal prosecution? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#45518301) |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 5:00 PM Author: contagious transparent milk potus flame, i hoap? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#45518317) |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 5:00 PM Author: contagious transparent milk potus raced here to comment on that.
"It's the type of request from House Republicans that the White House is describing as politically motivated"
politically motivated, as opposed i suppose, to the WH and DOJ targeting parents whom the teachers unions disliked? the whole fucking thing was a political set-up. |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 5:02 PM Author: Milky supple address sound barrier not too familiar with this R flame. is this about parents threatening school boards over letting children learn about gender, or something? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#45518323) |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 5:08 PM Author: contagious transparent milk potus flame, i hoap? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#45518341) |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 5:12 PM Author: Milky supple address sound barrier i don't flame. this is what i recall (i am a nonpartisan three-issuemo) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#45518363) |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 10:59 PM Author: contagious transparent milk potus we still don't have all the facts because WH/DOJ is stonewalling.
but from what we infer from the known facts, the WH was concerned that school board protests were hurting Dems politically -- as was critical to the Youngkin win in VA, for example. so the WH specifically asked a school group to write a particular type of letter -- and it appears that the WH may have even helped draft the letter -- to DOJ to provide warrant for DOJ to instruct local law enforcement to investigate parents who protested at school boards. just five days later after receiving the WH's proxy letter, Garland's fully polished memo was promulgated. very suspicious timing. law enforcement then began investigations of first amendment conduct.
that's what needs to be investigated. |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 5:12 PM Author: disgusting fat ankles point DOJ threatened to charge parents with terrorism if they voiced 100% legitimate concerns about the sick and 100% atrocious policies of the school boards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#45518359) |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 5:14 PM Author: Milky supple address sound barrier the memo seems to be targeted towards 'threats'. of the people who were prosecuted, if any, did any of them not actually threaten members of these school boards? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#45518369) |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 9:38 PM Author: Exhilarant Snowy Feces The best known example was the guy who was arrested at the Loudon County school board meeting after he said his daughter was raped by a tranny in a bathroom at school, and the school board basically said they had no idea what he was talking about. He was then arrested for “threatening” some other parent at the meeting who called him a liar.
Meanwhile it turned his daughter was actually raped by a dude in a skirt in a bathroom at school (to be fair she cosented to some light groping, but he then forced his girldick on her) and it turned out that the school board was very much aware that emo boi had been arrested (boi subsequently ran the same shtick at another school and is now locked up until zhes 21) |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 9:41 PM Author: Milky supple address sound barrier well, did he threaten the other parent? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#45519286) |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 5:14 PM Author: Razzmatazz hateful degenerate this is how you fix inflation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#45518375) |
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Date: November 19th, 2022 7:03 PM Author: contagious transparent milk potus and it will help us transition to renewables. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#45518765) |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:02 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, recently released docs show that career types in the DOJ were pushing back on the Garland initiative because the parents were obviously exercising their first amendment rights.
the top DOJ people noted, though, that "the WH has been in touch." the import is that the WH was pushing this initiative.
reptiles are screaming "smoking gun" but i'd say it just proves what we already knew. Garland, btw, was terribly out of place in a partisan policy slot. he got played left, right, and center.
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Today, America First Legal (AFL) released explosive new documents conclusively proving what AFL has known since day one: the infamous October 4 memo from Attorney General Garland labeling concerned parents as “domestic terrorists” was a political operation of weaponized government, not the normal, lawful execution of federal laws by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
These never-before-seen documents—uncovered only because of AFL’s relentless efforts over the past three and a half years—expose not only the Biden White House’s involvement in pushing a weaponized DOJ, but also strong dissent from careers within the Department’s Civil Rights Division, who warned that there was no federal authority or legal basis to target these parents in the first place because their speech is protected by the First Amendment.
According to AFL’s findings, career officials within the DOJ Civil Rights Division repeatedly flagged the gross lack of federal jurisdiction and the First Amendment protections at stake. Their warnings were brushed aside, sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.
The heart of this scandal is encapsulated in a phrase so damning it can’t be ignored: “The WH has been in touch.” |
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Date: July 19th, 2025 10:57 AM Author: All American protestor waving Mexican flag tp And… it’s memory holed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238536&forum_id=2],#49114154) |