Missouri AG blasts DOJ directive as 'unconstitutional expansion' of federal power as criticism mounts
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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sent Garland a letter exclusively obtained by Fox News on Tuesday blasting the memo directing the DOJ, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other umbrella agencies "to investigate and prosecute parents as domestic terrorists" as "outrageous" and "unconstitutional."
"First, the federal government does not have jurisdiction over school issues," Schmitt pointed out. "Your directive came just days after the National School Boards Association (NSBA) called on the Biden administration to investigate and prosecute parents as domestic terrorists."
"Neither your directive nor the NSBA letter to the Biden Administration identifies any impact that parent comments to school bureaucrats could have on interstate commerce," Schmitt also wrote. "It is difficult to imagine any such connection."