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Merrick Garland Awards $1.6B to Reduce Violent Crime. On Monday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the Department of Justice is awarding $1.6 billion in grant assistance to communities throughout the United States to fund programs to “reduce violent crime and strengthen communities.” With the U.S. often perceived as a “less safe” nation under Joe Biden, the department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) will administer the wide range of grants to organizations and communities across the country. Garland explained in a DOJ press release: “The Department of Justice is committed to supporting our state and local partners to combat crime across the country. This latest round of funding will deliver critical public safety resources, helping public safety professionals, victim service providers, local agencies, and nonprofit organizations confront these serious challenges.” With $21 million focused on hate crimes, the grant will support the enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.

(@LetMyChildrenGo) June 9, 2021. Senate GOP Request AG Garland To Testify Again, His ‘Statements Appear To Be Deeply Misleading’ The United States Attorney (AG) is the highest judicial official in the land. “The principal duties of the Attorney General are to: Represent the United States in legal matters. Supervise and direct the administration and operation of the offices, boards, divisions, and bureaus that comprise the Department.”

As with the Supreme Court, all aspects of the federal government appear to have become infiltrated by political activists. The current AG has a history of left-leaning opinions as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021. After reviewing Attorney General Merrick Garland’s previous testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Seven Republicans are asking AG Garland to testify again. U.S. Garland testified before the committee on Oct. 27, when he faced intense questioning over his Oct. 4 memo announcing an FBI investigation of purported intimidation of school boards. Jim Jordan Demands AG Garland Rescind 'Terrorist' Parent Memo.

Advertisement OPINION: This article contains commentary which reflects the author's opinion A leading Republican says he is demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland rescind a memo to the Justice Department and FBI instructing both entities to target parents who show up to school board meetings to complain about inappropriate curriculum. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, blasted Garland this week for sending out a memo to the FBI and U.S. attorneys ordering them to be on the lookout for parental behaviors a major school board organization likened to “domestic terrorism.” Jordan “has fired off letter after letter to DOJ elements over the past couple of weeks, calling on them to hand over details about how they have carried out Garland’s early October directive,” the Washington Examiner reported, adding: “We want the memo rescinded,” Jordan told the outlet.

“So, rescind that. “I think that’s worth looking into. The Examiner adds: Rep. Scott Perry: 'Merrick Garland Is Either Untruthful or Incompetent' - Todd Starnes. Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) is calling for Attorney General Merrick Garland’s removal after a whistleblower within the Biden administration testified Tuesday that Garland lied to Congress. In October, Garland told the House Judiciary Committee that parents, who protest school board meetings, are not being treated as domestic terrorists by the FBI.

But an email sent to House Republicans by a whistleblower revealed the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division is engaged in categorizing threat assessments relating to parents with a “threat tag,” The Federalist reported. “Merrick Garland is either untruthful or incompetent. Either way, it is why I dropped articles of impeachment on [him],” said Perry, who is also the chairman-elect of the House Freedom Caucus. Further, the email referenced Garland’s October 4 directive to the FBI to ramp up its involvement in school board threats, according to The DailyMail. “Justice is supposed to be blind.

Gov. Loading Ad. FBI emails: Garland authorized use of counterterrorism tools against parents who oppose CRT, and lied to Congress – Geller Report. This administration is rapidly discarding the safeguards that for over two centuries have protected Americans from tyranny. The FBI is at this point a rogue, hyper-partisan organization that is operating as a squad of enforcers for a lawless administration that appears bent on criminalizing dissent from its far-Left agenda. This behavior by Merrick Garland and the FBI is the behavior of a totalitarian state, not a free republic.

The worst aspect of this story, however, is that Garland is still in office, and will suffer no consequences for his actions. The corruption in Washington has by now spread so far that he can safely ignore calls to resign and know that he will be fiercely defended by the Biden regime, as well as by its propaganda arm, the establishment media. “Leaked FBI Documents Reveal Merrick Garland Authorized Use of Counterterrorism Tools Against Anti-CRT Parents,” Big League Politics, November 16, 2021: Quick note: Tech giants are shutting us down.

The Truth Must be Told. FOIA Disclosure Sends Attorney General Garland Reeling. Thanks to a public information FOIA request, conservative Americans just learned exactly why Attorney General Merrick Garland labeled parents as “domestic terrorists.” He’s after them simply for protesting critical race theory because he’s been getting a cut of the profits. It turns out that his son-in-law makes big bucks peddling CRT propaganda materials to the schools. FOIA spells trouble for AG Attorney General Merrick Garland seems to have a conflict of interest problem. The official Imperial Minister of Justice has been cashing in on the progressive propaganda that liberals like to call “critical race theory.” The information was revealed by America First Legal, after the palace FOIA processors shook loose the documents former adviser to President Trump Stephen Miller requested, under the Freedom of Information Act.

Garland’s daughter is married to Xan Tanner and that’s all in the public records. By doing it with Critical Race Theory indoctrination. Protesting the Marxist agenda. FOIA Disclosure Sends Attorney General Garland Reeling. After Garland Refused to Apologize to Virginia Parent Whose Daughter Was "Raped," Watch Tom Cotton Torch Him on Live TV - Subject: Politics.

Sen. Tom Cotton TORCHED Attorney General Merrick Garland during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday. The explosive exchange was about Garland’s handling of the Loudoun County Virginia case where a teen was accused of “raping” a fellow student in the bathroom, and the school system has been accused of covering it up. This Virginia case has garnered national attention and outraged parents because it comes at the same time Garland’s Justice Department is instructing the FBI to investigated parents who “threaten” school boards. Advertisement Sen. Garland stopped short of apologizing, while offering some sympathy, but that wasn’t enough for Sen. You can watch their full, heated back-and-forth in this video below. From Fox News: Sen. Cotton noted that Garland has cited news reports – in addition to a letter from the National School Boards Association – as inspiring his memo. WATCH: Senator Cruz Unloads On AG Merrick Garland, Grills Him Over Why He Dodged Key Question.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) repeatedly grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland during a Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday over allegations that the Biden Justice Department has been weaponized to go after political opponents. A fiery Cruz pressed Garland over a memo that he sent to the FBI following a National School Boards Association letter that suggested that the actions of some parents frustrated with certain school policies could rise to the level of domestic terrorism. Cruz also pressed Garland over whether he sought an ethics opinion over a potential conflict-of-interest involving his son-in-law. SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): For eight years under Barack Obama, the Department of Justice was politicized and weaponized. When you came before this committee in your confirmation hearing, you promised things would be different. The Daily Wire is one of America’s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment.

Senator Tom Cotton Slams Radical AG Garland During Senate Hearing: 'Do you apologize to Scott Smith and his 15-yr-old daughter?' [VIDEO] Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed President Joe Biden’s radically woke Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday afternoon over the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) threatening letter against parents who are demanding school boards across America stop indoctrinating their children with the racist critical race theory (CRT), sexualizing them through the curriculum, and forcing their kids to wear masks to school all day long when the science says there is slim to no change of them catching or dying from COVID-19 and slim left town.

Cotton asked Garland about the timing of his threatening letter to parents. “You’ve cited, as the basis for that directive, the National School Boards Association’s letter of September 29th. Was that directive being prepared before September 29th, before the school board association letter was issued?” “I don’t believe so, certainly.

I didn’t have any idea…” Garland said. Cotton added, “Okay. Fight tech tyranny. Senator Tom Cotton Slams Radical AG Garland During Senate Hearing: 'Do you apologize to Scott Smith and his 15-yr-old daughter?' [VIDEO] Transcript: Sen Ted Cruz Totally Destroys AG Merrick Garland....A Thing of Beauty. Sen Ted Cruz is better than a Veg-O-Matic. He slices, chops, dices, grates, and then left Garland lying on the side of the road crying out for mommy. Cruz brought up Garland’s conflict of interest involving his son-in-law. He eviscerated garland for siccing the FBI on parents. He got him to admit that he refuses to rescind his letter to the FBI, despite having never looked into the accusations of parental violence.

Cruz spent most of his time grilling garland about his memo telling the FBI to investigate parents as domestic terrorists. He pointed out that the White House and the school board association had colluded for weeks before the school board association drafted their letter. The Transcript: SEN. MERRICK GARLAND, U.S. CRUZ: Okay, you don’t know. GARLAND: Again, the general report– CRUZ: How many of them were violent? GARLAND: I don’t know. CRUZ: You don’t know. GARLAND: Yes, it is. CRUZ: Okay. 15 of the 20, on the face of it, are not violent. CRUZ: Did you look up the 20 instances? Kaboom: Ted Cruz Nukes Merrick Garland for Standing By Unleashing FBI on 'Domestic Terrorist' Parents. Senator Ted Cruz unleashed a furious response to Attorney General Merrick Garland at a Senate hearing on Wednesday over the Department of Justice deploying the FBI to investigate purported “domestic terrorist” parents.

Watch: “How many incidents are cited in that memo?” Cruz asked. “I have to look back through the memo…” Garland responded. “You don’t know. How many of them are violent?” “Again, the general report…” “How many of them were violent? “I don’t know,” Garland responded. “You don’t know. “I did a quick count just sitting here,” he continued. “My God! “Yes it is,” Garland replied. “Okay,” Cruz replied.

“Yet, miraculously, when you write a memo, the opening line of your memo, ‘in recent months, there has been a disturbing spike in harassment and intimidation and threats of violence’,” Cruz noted. “Do you know what?” “As I testified, the decision to make – to send the memo is for an assessment,” Garland responded. “Did you look up the twenty instances?” “I did not read…” With NO Evidence, AG Garland Tells Sen. Cruz Chicago Cops Wouldn't Have Died Of COVID If They Were Vaccinated. Senator Cruz blasted Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland during a Senate Judicial Committee hearing for refusing to answer if he agrees with police officers being fired for refusing to take the COVID jab.

Cruz explained to Garland that over one-third of police officers in the crime-ridden city of Chicago are refusing to share their vaccination status. He asked AG Garland, “As the chief law enforcement officer of the nation, do you agree with Joe Biden saying they “should be fired, despite skyrocketing crime”? AG Garland refused to answer his question about whether or not he agreed with Joe Biden and instead threw the issue back at the states to decide. Not only did AG Garland refuse to answer the question, but he used an emotional, unproven claim to back up Biden’s outrageous demand.

Does Garland have evidence that every police officer with COVID-19 listed as their cause of death actually died of COVID? Watch the heated exchange here. Sen Tom Cotton UNLOADS On Biden's Far-Left AG Garland...Will you apologize" To Father of 15-Yr-Old Girl Raped In Bathroom "by a boy wearing girl's clothes?" Senator Tom Cotton unloaded on Joe Biden’s radical, far-left Attorney General Merrick Garland during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this afternoon over the DOJ’s threatening letter to parents who are demanding school boards across America stop sexualizing our children, indoctrinating them with the racist CRT curriculum and mandating that they wear masks to school.

Senator Cotton asked AG Garland about when the threatening letter was prepared: “You’ve cited, as the basis for that directive, the National School Board Association’s letter of September 29th. Was that directive being prepared before September 29th, before the school board association letter was issued?” “I don’t believe so, certainly, I didn’t have any idea…” Garland replied. Cotton continued, “Okay. So, it was only prepared after—okay. I think that answers the question.” Trending: Students Stage Walkout in Support of 15-Year-Old Raped by “Boy in a Skirt” After Victim’s “Brave” Testimony Results in Charges [Video] Dick Durbin Backs AG Garland's Attack on Parents.