GOP senators grill assistant AG Kristen Clarke over DOJ school board memo
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Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, grilled Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke on Wednesday about the controversial DOJ memorandum mobilizing the FBI to address alleged threats against school board members nationwide.
"Does it raise civil rights concerns when the government attempts to intimidate citizens who are exercising their First Amendment freedom of speech?" Blackburn asked in an apparent reference to the DOJ memo, which Attorney General Merrick Garland penned after the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to President Biden.
The letter requested help for alleged death threats to school boards over COVID-19 policies and critical race theory (CRT).
Critics have claimed the memo will effectively weaponize the FBI to investigate parents who object to the curriculum and policies of their local public schools.
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