Attorney General Garland Defends School Board Memo

 

We ran the numbers: There are 2446 news articles covering this topic. 53% (1308) are left leaning, 35% (849) are center, and 12% (289) are right leaning.

On Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland clashed with Republican senators over the Justice Department’s efforts to crack down on violent threats against school boards. While left-leaning articles highlight that Garland signaled that he had no plans to rescind the directive despite criticism by Republicans, right-leaning articles highlight that Garland doubled down on his memo to Department of Justice employees addressing a federal response to violence and intimidation of school board officials.

 A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that Garland signaled that he had no plans to rescind the directive despite criticism by Republicans. The memo came out less than a week after the National School Board Association wrote the Biden administration about the threats to school officials and asked for help. 

The Hill published a centrist article reporting that Senator Tom Cotton told Garland, “Thank God you’re not on the Supreme Court.” Cotton made the remark during a heated exchange where the senator tried to tie the Justice Department’s new school board policy to an incident where a teenager was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student in a school bathroom.

A right-leaning article by Fox News highlights that Garland doubled down on his memo to Department of Justice employees addressing a federal response to violence and intimidation of school board officials. Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the NSB’s second letter, which contained an apology for inflammatory language in the first one, had no bearing on the DOJ’s stance.



Previous
Previous

Biden's Spending Framework Abandoned Progressives Priorities

Next
Next

White House Tries to Lock Down Deal with Manchin Sinema