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🚨SMOKING GUN🚨

AFL has obtained new documents CONCLUSIVELY PROVING that AG Merrick Garland’s infamous Oct. 4 memo labeling concerned parents at school board meetings “domestic terrorists” was POLITICALLY ORCHESTRATED and DRIVEN by the Biden White House.

“WH has been in touch.”

/2 These new documents expose the Biden White House’s involvement in AG Garland’s memo targeting parents — and reveal that career lawyers at DOJ warned that there was no federal authority or legal basis to target these parents in the first place because their speech is protected by the First Amendment.

/3 The documents show that after receiving the National School Board Association (NSBA) memo, which called on DOJ to use the Patriot Act to prevent parents from objecting to mask mandates in schools and Critical Race Theory in the curriculum, DOJ’s political leadership worked to identify anything — any authority — they could use to bring the full weight of the Justice Department down on parents.

/4 The problem was that all the advice from the DOJ career lawyers was that there was no law within the Justice Department’s purview that applied to parents speaking at school board meetings…

/5 Despite setting off a weekend fire drill to find “any authorities CRT enforces” so that DOJ could act quickly to respond to the NSBA, Sparkle Sooknanan was explicitly advised that the instances cited by the NSBA “likely fall outside of our jurisdiction.”

/6 Not taking no for an answer, Sparkle said she’d already seen earlier communications and would track it down herself.

/7 Then, later the same day, Pam Karlan came back with more from the Civil Rights Division.

That advice was “there is nothing specific” and even if there was it was not “for school board members.” 

Pam characterized this to Sparkle as being “the end of the line.”

/8 Sparkle acknowledged that, saying she would “pass this on.” 

But it gets worse…

/9 That wasn’t the only Civil Rights Division attorney to express concern. 

The next day — just one day before AG Garland’s memo was issued — another Civil Rights Division attorney warned that no federal authority existed that supported targeting parents exercising their First Amendment rights, saying, “it seems that we are ramping up an awful lot of federal manpower for what is currently a non-federal conduct.”

/10 This attorney further called out the supposed facts underlying the NSBA’s letter, saying, “I have read the letter from NSBA and looked at the links,” and “the vast, vast, majority of behavior cited cannot be reached by federal law.”

“Almost all of the language being used is protected by the First Amendment.”

/11 Undeterred by the career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division who were skeptical that actual threats justified DOJ involvement, AG Garland’s political appointees continued to push this false narrative.

/12 DOJ eventually recognized that AG Garland’s memo was motivated by partisanship, yet still attempted to downplay that reality for optics, apparently removing language from the memo relating to elections.

/13 Later that day, DOJ issued the memo to the FBI, U.S. Attorneys, and law enforcement agencies. 

AFL has previously released emails showing how even the career law enforcement ranks within the FBI were blindsided and taken aback by the memo, with attorneys at the FBI saying they hoped that DOJ would reconsider.

/14 On October 7, 2021, AFL committed to fight Biden and Garland’s weaponized DOJ.

With these new documents, we have proven what we have long suspected.

/15 This damning discovery is the culmination of AFL’s relentless efforts over the past three years to expose the truth behind this infamous memo.

/16 AFL will continue fighting to obtain all relevant documents that expose how the Biden Administration shamelessly weaponized the legal and national security apparatus of the United States against the American people.

We will never stop fighting to defend you.

/17 Read all the documents AFL uncovered here:

aflegal.org/press-release/…