共和党立法者批评加兰参与应由州和地方执法部门处理的事项，并在全国学校董事会协会成立后几天发布备忘录 (NSBA) asked the Biden administration to utilize tools including the terrorism-related PATRIOT Act to deal with these situations.
十七个州询问拜登, GARLAND TO STOP INTIMIDATING PARENTS INTO SILENCE AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS
“I want to be clear. The Justice Department supports and defends the First Amendment right of parents to complain as vociferously as they wish about the education of their children, about the curriculum taught in the schools. That is not what the memorandum is about at all, nor does it use the words ‘domestic terrorism’ or ‘PATRIOT Act,’” Garland said Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee in response to a question from Rep. Steve Chabot, 俄亥俄州, about the memo.
