Government Accountability

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling on him to immediately withdraw his October 4th memo directing the FBI to involve itself with local school board meetings, which has led federal prosecutors to threaten to prosecute parents under laws that were repealed long ago. Senator Hawley writes that a memo from the U.S. Attorney in Montana, which directed law enforcement to “contact the FBI” if a parent calls a member of a school...

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called for Attorney General Merrick Garland's resignation following a memo from the National School Board Association revealing that the Biden Administration's plan to intimidate parents with the FBI was premised on misinformation. Merrick Garland mobilized the FBI to intimidate parents without legal basis and, we now know, premised on misinformation he didn’t bother to verify. It was a dangerous abuse of authority that has badly compromised the Justice Dept’s...

President Joe Biden’s administration recently unveiled a proposal that would allow the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to gain access to virtually every working American’s financial information by requiring financial institutions to report account data to the IRS for anyone whose transactions total at least $10,000 over the course of one year. In response, this week U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and 46 of his colleagues cosponsored Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) “Prohibiting IRS Financial...