"No one should be physically attacked or threatened with bodily harm. That is a given.

"But Attorney General Merrick Garland is exploiting this fundamental doctrine as a pretext to coerce and frighten parents whose only supposed 'crime' is seeking to improve their children's education. ...

"To accomplish it, Garland plans to weaponize the immense powers of the FBI and the Department of Justice to bully parents into submission. Under the guise of combating what he refers to as 'intimidation,' he is exerting more intimidation with superior force. He aspires to criminalize contentiousness. ...

"Even more embarrassing was Garland's misstatement of constitutional law. He claimed that the First Amendment does not protect 'efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views.' What? Where is that written anywhere in the myriad of U.S. Supreme Court decisions involving free speech cases? ...

"Even more confounding was the attorney general's assertion that he possesses some imagined jurisdiction over local school boards and any potential crimes arising from their public meetings. Those are issues solely within the province of local police and their enforcement of state laws. There is no valid federal authority over such matters. Yet, Garland asserts it without the power to do so.

"Political activity in petitioning our government -- whether it be Congress in Washington or a school board in Wichita -- for a redress of grievances is a cherished right of every American and vital to democracy. It is embedded in the Bill of Rights. Garland seems oblivious to this sacred principle."

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