Rokita, other AGs ask Biden to ‘dial down rhetoric’ on dissent at school board meetings

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana’s Todd Rokita and 16 different authorities attorneys wide person sent a missive to President Joe Biden and the U.S. lawyer general asking them to halt efforts “to chill lawful dissent by parents voiced during section schoolhouse committee meetings by characterizing them arsenic unlawful and threatening.”

Indiana has not been immune to parents interrupting schoolhouse committee meetings, including disruptions astatine meetings successful the New Albany and Zionsville districts. Carmel Clay School Board decided this month to marque its meetings virtual aft “deliberately orchestrated aggregate disruptions.”

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland connected Oct. 4 sent a letter that called connected the FBI and different national instrumentality enforcement agencies to convene meetings wrong 30 days to sermon strategies for discussing threats against schoolhouse administrators, committee members, teachers and staff.

Rokita said successful a news release connected Monday, “Concerned parents passionate astir their kids’ acquisition are not terrorists.” He called connected Biden and special-interest allies to “dial down the rhetoric.”

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