Jordan Questions Garland: “So you read the letter? That’s your source?”, Nadler Not Accept Video

On 10/21/2021 Attorney General Merrick Garland admitted that the basis for targeting and potentially charging parents concerned about what their children are learning in schools with domestic terrorism was a letter from the National School Boards Association, not real evidence. “When did you first review the data showing this so-called disturbing uptick?” Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan asked. “I read the letter, and we have been seeing over time—” Garland began before Jordan interrupted him. “So you read the letter? That’s your source?” Jordan asked incredulously. “Is there some study, some effort, some investigation someone did that, said there’s been a disturbing uptick, or you just take the words of the National School Board Association?”

Garland then confirmed it wasn’t until NSBA contacted him that his department began to investigate claims of violence and terrorism. “Well, the National School Board Association, which represents thousands of school boards and school board members, says that there are these kinds of threats. When we read in the newspapers reports of threats of ” Garland said before Jordan interjected again. “The source for this … was the National School Boards Association letter,” Jordan reiterated before his time expired.

Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) got into an argument during a House Judiciary Committee hearing featuring Attorney General Merrick Garland over giving notice to show a video featuring parents at school board meetings. Nadler objected to Jordan showing the footage on the grounds that the Ohio Republican did not provide 48 hours notice to the committee before showing the video. When Jordan tried to respond to the decision, Nadler said “that’s out of order, this is not debatable” then later said he was following protocol set by a previous Republican chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (Va.).

“What’s out of order is that there is no rule that requires a 48-hour notice, that’s what out of order,” Jordan said. “There is such a rule,” Nadler said, to which Jordan argued again that there is not. Jordan later tried to argue that the stipulation about providing 48 hours’ notice is not a rule but a piece of protocol. “It’s a video about parents at school board meetings,” Jordan said, becoming visibly frustrated. “Moms and dads speaking at school board meetings. And you guys aren’t going to let us play it?”

Nadler in response read the official stipulation that mandates the 48 hours’ notice. “Mr. Chairman, obviously you’re not going to let us play it and obviously you’re going to censor us, which is sort of the conduct of the left today it seems and Democrats today it seems,” Jordan responded.