Republican senator Josh Hawley called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to resign in a heated conversation about the way parents across the nation are being treated for taking an interest in the education of their children.
“Senator Josh Hawley told Attorney General Merrick Garland to resign during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, accusing the top Biden official of ‘weaponizing’ the Department of Justice against parents who speak out at school board meetings,” reported Breitbart News.
“This is a father from Loudoun County and here he is at a school board meeting,” said Hawley. “He was forcibly restrained, assaulted and arrested. Why? Because he went to an elected school board meeting. He is a voter, by the way. He went to an elected school board meeting to raise the fact that his daughter was assaulted, sexually assaulted in a girls restroom by a boy.”
Hawley continued, “you testified last week that you didn’t know anything about this case. I find that extraordinary because the letter you put so much weight on that’s now been retracted, it cites this case. It directly cites Mr. Scott’s case. There’s a news article cited in the letter. But you testified you just couldn’t remember it. Do you think parents who show up to complain about there children being assaulted ought to be treated like this man?”
Garland answered as you’d expect him to answer. Short and calculated, confirming the truth that these parents are protected by the First Amendment and cannot be prosecuted as long as they are not ‘committing or threatening acts of violence.’
Hawley ended things by saying, “I will leave it at this, Mr. Garland. You have weaponized the FBI and the Department of Justice. Your U.S. attorneys are now collecting and cataloging all the ways that they might prosecute parents, like Mr. Smith, because they want to be involved in their children’s education and they want to have a say in their elected officials. It’s wrong, unprecedented in the history of this country, and I call on you to resign.”
