Garland Refuses to Disavow School Board Memo in Senate Hearing

Attorney General Garland Merrick testified before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, not to be confused with his previous testimony in the U.S. House.

Senators Tom Cotton and Ted Cruzmade the latter look like a walk in the park, pelting him with questions over his controversial school board memo and more.

“This year, this testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful,” Cotton said. “That’s not– thank God you’re not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge.”

Tom Cotton to Merrick Garland:

“Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court.” pic.twitter.com/Vk5Bg6OfwH

— The First (@TheFirstonTV) October 27, 2021

Cotton also asked him whether he is investigating “Tony Fauci for lying to Congress” to which the nation’s top cop declined, citing “a long-time rule in the Justice Department not to discuss pending investigations, potential investigations.”

Senator Ted Cruz slammed the attorney general for his ignorance on one of the main justifications for his memorandum– the arrest of a father of a rape victim in Loudoun County.

Cruz accused Garland of calling that father “a domestic terrorist” and demanded he apologize and retract his memo after the National School Board Association did so regarding the organization’s letter to him which led to his taking action.

.@tedcruz unloads on Merrick Garland for not apologizing after Department of Justice memo targeting parents. pic.twitter.com/rjIwQi38XG

— The First (@TheFirstonTV) October 27, 2021

Senator Chuck Grassley got one of the straightest answers from Garland. He asked, “Presumably, you wrote the memo because of the letter. The letter is disavowed now, so you’re going to keep your memo going anyway, right? Is that what you’re telling me?”

Garland replied, “The language in the letter that they disavow is language was never included in my memo and never would have been. I did not adopt every concern that they had in their letter. I thought that only the concern about violence and threats of violence that hasn’t changed.”

Senator Ted Cruz also incessantly pressed the attorney general for a “yes or no” answer on whether his son-in-law stood to benefit financially from the teaching of critical race theory in public schools. Garland repeatedly refused to respond directly.