There are a variety of partisan myths that Republicans embrace with unnerving certainty, as if they just know in their gut that the falsehoods are true, reality notwithstanding. They know, for example, that Donald Trump created the greatest economy ever (he didn’t). They know that the Russia scandal was discredited (it wasn’t). They know that the Obama-era IRS scandalously mistreated conservatives (it didn’t).
And as regular readers are well aware, they know that Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden administration’s Justice Department targeted conservative parents who went to school board meetings, labeling these concerned citizens as “domestic terrorists,” despite the fact that this didn’t actually happen.
Nevertheless, as NBC News reported, the issue is now the subject of a new congressional investigation.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, issued subpoenas Friday to the heads of the Justice Department, FBI and Department of Education seeking documents related to local school board meetings. The subpoenas — which Jordan noted are his first as chairman sent to the Biden administration — require Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to turn over all documents on the topic by March 1.
It’s worth noting for context that the far-right Ohioan also claims to have secret, unnamed sources whom he claims told him that FBI agents “opened investigations into parents simply for speaking out on behalf of their children.”
That’s extraordinarily hard to believe, and Jordan has produced no evidence to substantiate the claim, but perhaps some kind of confirmation will someday reach the public. I doubt it, but time will tell.
At this point, we could spend some time dwelling on the fact that Jordan is issuing congressional subpoenas after ignoring the congressional subpoena he received from the Jan. 6 committee, but let’s instead consider why his new investigation is so…
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