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During testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland refuses to rescind his controversial memo calling on the FBI and DOJ to use the Patriot Act to investigate concerned parents who attend school board meetings. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA, said: “As a result of your memo, local school officials and parents may not speak up in these meetings, out of fear the federal government will do something to them, so that’s a poisonous chilling effect….”