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A group of parents has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland over his recent memorandum calling for greater federal involvement in investigating threats made against school boards and teachers. The American Freedom Law Center, a conservative legal group, represents an unincorporated association of parents with children enrolled in a public school district in Saline, Michigan. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The lawsuit argues that the Oct. 4 Garland memorandum calling on federal agencies to work with states on “strategies for addressing threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff” is politically driven overreach aimed at silencing parents who express valid objections to certain ideas being in the curriculum. “Contrary to the Attorney General’s false assertion, there is no widespread criminality at school board meetings where parents and concerned citizens have…