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Tom Cotton to AG Garland: 'Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court'

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Tom Cotton to AG Garland: 'Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court'

"That letter and those reports were the basis for your directive. This is shameful. Judge, this is shameful. This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge."

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Cotton was right on about the AG today. He’s a coward targeting parents for daring to protect their own children.

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Tom Cotton to AG Garland: 'Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court'

Arkansas senator called Garland 'shameful' for his directive related to violence, threats and intimidation of school board officials

Ronn Blitzer 2 hours ago

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Sen. Tom Cotton , R-Ark., tore into Attorney General Merrick Garland during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, chastising him for his memo to Justice Department employees about intervening in violence, threats and intimidation targeting school board officials.

Cotton noted that Garland has cited news reports – in addition to a letter from the National School Boards Association – as inspiring his memo. The Arkansas Republican then brought up one of the more high-profile instances of a parent being arrested for conduct at a school board meeting, where Scott Smith was charged with disorderly conduct after demanding answers regarding how his daughter was allegedly sexually assaulted in a girls' bathroom at school by a boy who had reportedly been wearing women's clothing.

GARLAND REFUSES TO BACK AWAY FROM DOJ MEMO AFTER SCHOOL BOARD APOLOGY

While Garland stopped short of apologizing to the Smith family, he expressed sympathy for their situation and said that "anyone whose child is raped … is certainly entitled and protected by the First Amendment to protest to their school board about that."

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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP) (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP)

Cotton was not satisfied with this response.

MCCARTHY DEMANDS AG GARLAND RETRACT MEMO URGING FBI TO INVESTIGATE PARENTS WHO THREATEN SCHOOL BOARDS

Garland was famously nominated to the Supreme Court by former President Barack Obama in 2016 following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Senate, controlled by Republicans at the time, refused to hold a confirmation hearing, allowing Garland’s nomination to remain undecided until Obama’s successor, former President Donald Trump, withdrew the nomination and appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch instead.

In response to Cotton’s diatribe, Garland insisted that the news reports cited by the NSBA – including the Smith case – were not the news reports that influenced him in issuing his directive.

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1 seeder XXJefferson51 3 years ago

Virginia mother says feds, helicopter showed up at school board meeting and she's received 'daily threats'

Stacy Langton says she attended protest outside DOJ earlier this month

Nikolas Lanum2 hours ago

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A mother of six in Fairfax County, Virginiasaid Wednesday that federal agents, including unmarked vehicles and a helicopter, were present at a recent local school board meeting.

"This is something that is incredible in America and it’s ridiculously un-American," said Stacy Langton during an appearance on "Fox & Friends."

Langton shared a photo on Twitter of a Department of Homeland Security vehicle as well as several "ghost cars," which could have been either unmarked local or federal vehicles. In addition, Langton said a helicopter flew overhead, shining its spotlight down on the event.

AG GARLAND REFUSES TO BACK DOWN FROM DOJ MEMO AFTER SCHOOL BOARD APOLOGY

Fox News reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment but did not receive an immediate response.

Langton said she and about 45 other parents had protested outside of the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 17, four days prior to the school board meeting. She said that she did not believe it was a coincidence.

Since the DOJ protest, Langton said she has been receiving daily threats from unidentified sources. She believes the threats are also a result of her public statements criticizing her children's school curriculum, which she said included the distribution of pornographic materials to students.

<strong>Parents and community members attend a Loudoun County School Board meeting, just 40 minutes from Fairfax

"I have threats against my children by name, I have been followed in my car with my children, they have my vehicle, they know where I live, and I don’t know who’s putting somebody up to this, but it’s obviously meant to intimidate me," said Langton. …
read more: https://www.foxnews.com/media/virginia-mother-feds-helicopter-school-board-meeting-threats

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1.1 seeder XXJefferson51 replied to XXJefferson51 @1 3 years ago

Garland refuses to back away from DOJ memo after school board apology

Sen. Hawley calls on Garland to resign

Ronn Blitzer10 hours ago

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Attorney General Merrick Garland doubled down on his memo to Department of Justice employees addressing a federal response to violence and intimidation of school board officials — despite the National School Boards Association apologizing for the letter that inspired the memo.

Appearing on Capitol Hill for the second time in two weeks, Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the NSBA's second letter – which contained an apology for inflammatory language in the first one – had no bearing on the DOJ's stance.

MCCARTHY DEMANDS AG GARLAND RETRACT MEMO URGING FBI TO INVESTIGATE PARENTS WHO THREATEN SCHOOL BOARDS

"The letter that was subsequently sent does not change the association’s concern of violence or threats of violence. It alters some of the language in the letter … that we did not rely on and is not contained in my own memorandum," Garland said after committee chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asked if he had "second thoughts" following the apology.

Garland claimed that the DOJ is not just concerned about school board officials, but a "rising tide" of violence against judges, prosecutors, election administrators, and others.

"The only thing the Justice Department is concerned about: violence and threats of violence," he said.

The committee's ranking member, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, claimed that the DOJ memo had a "poisonous, chilling effect" on speech, as it specifically dealt with opposition to school board officials. When he appeared before the House Judiciary Committee last week, Garland acknowledged the influence of the NSBA's original letter, which cited instances including non-violent behavior that did not include threats, but that was deemed disruptive.

The NSBA had called for the use of measures including the PATRIOT Act, which is typically used to address terrorism. Their second letter said they "regret and apologize for the letter," stating that "there was no justification for some of the language" that they had used.

"I assume you’re going to revoke your extremely divisive memo that you said was instigated because of that letter?" Grassley asked.

Garland defended the memo, claiming that it was a response "to concerns about violence, threats of violence, other criminal conduct."

"That’s all it’s about," he continued,…
read more: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/garland-doj-politicization-senate-judiciary-hearing

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1.1.1 goose is back replied to XXJefferson51 @1.1 3 years ago

This guy wants to silence parents so his daughter can get rich.

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1.1.2 seeder XXJefferson51 replied to goose is back @1.1.1 3 years ago

Exactly, and his son in law…

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1.1.3 seeder XXJefferson51 replied to goose is back @1.1.1 3 years ago

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1.2 seeder XXJefferson51 replied to XXJefferson51 @1 3 years ago

Garland has a huge conflict of interest as the AG. He needs to resign now!

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2 Greg Jones 3 years ago

He's as biased and political as the come....would have been a disaster on the SC

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2.1 seeder XXJefferson51 replied to Greg Jones @2 3 years ago

I agree. He’s nothing like he was advertised as at all. Cotton was exactly right!

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3 seeder XXJefferson51 3 years ago

Cotton was not satisfied with this response.
MCCARTHY DEMANDS AG GARLAND RETRACT MEMO URGING FBI TO INVESTIGATE PARENTS WHO THREATEN SCHOOL BOARDS

"That letter and those reports were the basis for your directive. This is shameful. Judge, this is shameful. This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge."
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