With the House Judiciary Committee's gavel and subpoena power close at hand, Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, is getting ready to launch his first investigations of the Biden administration.
With the House Judiciary Committee's gavel and subpoena power close at hand, Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, is getting ready to launch his first investigations of the Biden administration, starting Friday with what he has recently referred to as the administration's"anti-parent directives." It's the type of request from House Republicans that the White House is describing as politically motivated, as Republicans prepare to take control of the House.
The memo followed a September 2021 letter from the National School Boards Association asking the administration to investigate threats of violence against school board members that"could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes." Republicans on the committee allege the administration is using law enforcement to"chill" parents' First-Amendment rights, although the letter doesn't call parents who protest school board meetings"domestic terrorists," as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has claimed,"The American people … deserve much more accountability and transparency about the Biden administration's anti-parent directives," Jordan said in an Oct.
The request for testimony is voluntary — for now. But if the officials don't agree to testify and provide records, in January, when Republicans control the House,"the committee may be forced to resort to compulsory process to obtain the material we require," Friday's letter says. Jordan's efforts to obtain records related to the National School Boards Association letter and Justice Department memo have so far been unsuccessful.
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