Garland denies DOJ labeling parents as domestic terrorists following school board memo
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Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday denied claims that the Justice Department would label parents as domestic terrorists following a recent memorandum he sent to DOJ employees.
"I want to be clear. The Justice Department supports and defends the First Amendment right of parents to complain as vociferously as they wish about the education of their children, about the curriculum taught in the schools. That is not what the memorandum is about at all, nor does it use the words ‘domestic terrorism’ or ‘PATRIOT Act,’" Garland said Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee in response to a question from Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, about the memo.
Garland added that he "can't imagine any circumstance in which the Patriot Act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children," nor any circumstance in which those instances "would be labeled as domestic terrorism."