Biden DOJ actively sought 'federal hook' for school board memo about 'domestic terrorists,' document

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FIRST ON FOX: A conservative legal group revealed a tranche of correspondence on Friday from the Biden administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) shedding new light on the behind-the-scenes discussions about a controversial directive former Attorney General Merrick Garland gave about school boards.

The document dump included an email from a deputy attorney general aide that said the DOJ was searching for a "federal hook" to use to address a letter by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) raising alarm about parents who were, at the time, expressing outrage at school board meetings across the country over COVID-19 mandates, critical race theory, and transgender policies.

"We’re aware; the challenge here is finding a federal hook. But WH has been in touch about whether we can assist in some form or fashion," deputy attorney general aide Kevin Chambers wrote to a colleague on Oct. 1.

Garland issued a directive to the FBI in October 2021 about a "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence" against school administrators.

Garland said during a congressional hearing soon thereafter that he had issued the order just after the NSBA sent a letter to the White House, which the NSBA later retracted, that had asked the White House to investigate parents displaying threatening behavior at school board meetings as possible "domestic terrorists."

The emails were uncovered by America First Legal, a conservative group aligned with President Donald Trump.

The organization's president, Gene Hamilton, said in a statement that the emails revealed a "conspiracy that was ultimately aimed at depriving parents of two fundamental rights--the right to speak, and the right to direct the upbringing up their children."

The revelation comes as the White House has changed its posture during the Trump administration to overtly coordinate with the DOJ, including to investigate the president’s political opponents. Trump signed executive orders in April directing the DOJ to investigate former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor and former cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs. Fox News Digital reported this week that the White House counsel’s office is coordinating with the DOJ to investigate Biden’s use of an autopen.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-doj-white-house-coordinated-controversial-school-boards-memo-documents-reveal

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Documents: Biden AG and White House Conspired to Chill Local Parents’ School Board Protests

Lowell Cauffiel 19 Jul 2025

Damning revelations in federal documents obtained by a conservative watchdog group show the Biden administration’s Justice Department sought a “federal hook” so they could investigate and criminally charge parents protesting school policies related to COVID, transgenderism, critical race theory, and other issues.

Career attorneys in the DOJ argued in the released correspondence that such a move was legally baseless and would trample the First Amendment rights of parents.

The government documents, obtained by America First Legal, “conclusively prove” a memo from former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “mobilized the full force of the federal government’s firepower against concerned parents—not to protect schools, but to silence dissent”  and the ensuing investigation was “politically orchestrated and coordinated with the Biden White House,” America First Legal charged Friday.

The AFL in an extensive release on its website reported:

    These never-before-seen documents—uncovered only because of AFL’s relentless efforts over the past three and a half years—expose not only the Biden White House’s involvement in pushing a weaponized DOJ, but also strong dissent from careers within the Department’s Civil Rights Division, who warned that there was no federal authority or legal basis to target these parents in the first place because their speech is protected by the First Amendment.

The photocopies of emails and documents involved were also published on the website.

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https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2025/07/19/documents-biden-ag-white-house-conspired-chill-local-parents-school-board-protests/