The Supreme Court refused to take a complaint from parents in Michigan and Virginia on Monday, who accused General Prosecutor Merrick Garland of suffocating the freedom of their speech with a three -year note asking employees to look at threats aimed at public school employees.
In 2021, Garland issued a note aimed at the “disturbing jump in bullying, intimidation and threats of violence” imposed in schools. The document caused months of reaction and false claims that the Ministry of Justice believes that parents who talk about school policies at board meetings are “internal terrorists”.
Parents from Loudoun, Virginia and Saline, Michigan, have identified the note as a “fraudulent policy designed to intimidate and silence protesters at the school council meetings.” It forces parents to choose “between the denied protected activity” and “subjected to a federal investigation,” the parents told the Supreme Court.
But the lower courts were removed from the court dispute, noting that the note did not include a new regulation and that it was aimed at understanding the threats of violence, not the parents exercising their right to speak at the hearing on board. The note also does not indicate anyone to a home terrorist.
The Biden administration has called on the Supreme Court to cast the complaint, claiming that parents “did not claim that the government had taken any action against them.”
The decision of the Supreme Court, taken without comment, is the latest development in a campaign by some right-wing media and Republican politicians, complaining that the Ministry of Justice wanted to punish parents for visiting or protesting the school council meetings.
The note and court dispute came at a time when many meetings of the school council across the country were heated by Covid-19 policies and curricula, which some conservatives claim to be critical of white people.
Hanna Rabinovitz of CNN contributed to this report.
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