On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought by parents who accused the Department of Justice of improperly using the FBI to target them for their opposition to school board curricula or policies, the Washington Examiner reported.
The case, initially filed three years ago and spearheaded by the America Freedom Law Center, claimed that a 2021 memo issued by Attorney General Merrick Garland had unlawfully used the FBI to target parents opposed to “the divisive, harmful, immoral, and racist policies of the ‘progressive’ Left that are being implemented by school boards and school officials in public school districts throughout the United States.”
“In [Garland’s] memorandum,” the lawsuit noted, “the Attorney General expressly mentions the FBI as a further tool of intimidation. Conducting investigations and surveillance, which is what the FBI does, on private citizens because of their dissident political views is prohibited by our Constitution.”
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