The Supreme Court declined to take up a case on Monday involving parents who alleged that the Department of Justice stifled their free speech when it announced it was investigating protests at school board meetings.
The case, brought three years ago by the America Freedom Law Center, centered on a memo Attorney General Merrick Garland issued on Oct. 4, 2021, in which he instructed the FBI to begin addressing alleged threatening behavior toward school administrators.
The America Freedom Law Center argued on behalf of groups of parents in Saline, Michigan, and Loudoun, Virginia, that the memo was “intentionally designed … to chill parents” from expressing their views on public school policies and curricula.
Garland’s memo came in response to nationwide turmoil over school policies that came to light for parents when their students were taking online classes at home because of…
