The U.S. Department of Justice is “digging and looking” into the Biden administration’s weaponization of school boards against parents, DOJ official Ed Martin said.
Former Attorney General Merrick Garland sent a memo in 2021 directing the DOJ and the FBI to “launch a series of additional efforts in the coming days designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel.”
Conservatives saw the memo as seen an attempt to use the FBI to threaten and silence parents who voiced concerns with left-wing school board policies, such as critical race theory and radical gender ideology.
Martin, U.S. pardon attorney and President Donald Trump’s “weaponization czar,” said the memo was “government weaponized against ‘we the people.’”
“If you got hurt, let us know,” Martin said. “We’re digging and listening.”
Martin thanked parents who have already come forward and stood up against the weaponization of school boards against them.
After Martin was unable to achieve the necessary Senate votes to be confirmed as U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., Trump put him in charge of remedying the weaponization of government against Americans.
Parental rights activist Tiffany Justice met with Martin on Monday to discuss the weaponization of government against parents under Biden, The Daily Signal has learned. Justice is co-founder of Moms for Liberty and a visiting fellow in parental rights at The Heritage Foundation.
Justice shared with Martin what American parents were concerned about under the Biden administration, including COVID-19 lockdowns, learning loss, and falling test scores. She is confident Martin will look into how the government was weaponized against both parents and, more specifically, Catholics.
“Exposing it so that it never happens again, really showing who was involved and what their motivations were, would give parents a lot of satisfaction,” Justice said.
She would like Martin to expose teachers unions for the roles they played in the DOJ branding parents as “domestic extremists.” The National School Boards Association sent a letter to the Department of Justice, which prompted Garland’s memo.
“The unions are the foot soldiers of the progressive far left,” Justice said. “Since the creation of the Department of Education, [unions] have had an undue influence in our children’s lives and our children’s education, and they are using the school system to radically transform our country. Anything that we can do to reduce the influence and impact of the teachers unions is something that I’m supportive of.” [unions] have had an undue influence in our children’s lives and our children’s education, and they are using the school system to radically transform our country. Anything that we can do to reduce the influence and impact of the teachers unions is something that I’m supportive of.”