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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questioned Attorney General Merrick Garland’s deployment of the FBI to intervene in local school board matters in an exchange on 10/5/2021 with Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. In a memo the day before, Garland instructed the Justice Department and FBI “to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel,” in what Hawley and other critics view as an attempt to silence parents who actively oppose their school districts’ adoption of critical race theory and other leftist ideas or policies.
“Is waiting to express one’s view at a school board meeting harassment and intimidation?” Hawley asked Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco at one point. Hawley demanded that Monaco should “tell me where the line is with parents expressing their concerns” and also cast the FBI as interfering in school board meetings.