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Thirteen states are suing the Biden administration to obtain records on any FBI surveillance of parents protesting school boards.
Parents around the nation have spoken up in defense of their children who have been suffering under overly restrictive coronavirus-related policies, such as forced masking for hours on end.
In response, the Biden administration did the unthinkable by referring to concerned parents at school board meetings as “domestic terrorists.”
The lawsuit is led by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, who is a former member of Congress.
The Freedom of Information Act lawsuit targets Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. The Biden administration is accused of failing to honor FOIA requests.
“We just want the facts,” Rokita explained.
“Rather than cooperate, the Biden administration has sought to conceal and downplay its culpability. What are they hiding? Why won’t they come clean? Hoosiers and all Americans deserve to know.”
Plaintiffs in the case are Indiana, Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.
More on this story via Fox News:
The Indiana attorney general previously demanded all communications and records relating to the FBI’s decision to investigate violent threats against local education officials…
Cardona solicited the National School Boards Association’s (NSBA) much-criticized letter to Biden that compared protesting parents to domestic terrorists and suggested using the Patriot Act against them, according to an email exchange first reported by Fox News Digital.
The Education Department has denied that Cardona solicited the letter, and the NSBA has apologized for its language comparing passionate parents to domestic terrorists in the original letter…
“Attorney General Garland testified in Congress that his Memorandum was based on a now debunked and rescinded letter drafted by individuals in the Federal Government (EOP, ED, and DOJ) working with the National School Boards Association (‘NSBA’) dated September 29, 2021,” the lawsuit reads.
“This letter, from the NSBA to President Biden, called on him to invoke ‘the PATRIOT Act in regards to domestic terrorism,’ arguing that as ‘acts of malice, violence and threats against public school officials have increased, the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.'”
Forty-one Republican lawmakers demanded Cardona resign from his post over his apparent links to the NSBA’s bombshell letter.
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