“Joe Biden’s attorney general wants the FBI to go after parents for speaking out at school board meetings to protect kids from radical curriculum like critical race theory.”
What PolitiFact found
Garland's memo says spirited debate is protected. It calls for meetings to focus on acts that go over the line to become actual threats.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rick Scott (Republican senator from Florida) made this claim around 5 October 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 October 2021, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rick Scott has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 15 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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