(CNN)A federal judge threw out a lawsuit on Friday from parents that accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of stifling their free speech, saying the group misunderstood a memo addressing increased harassment against schools.
In 2021, Garland released a memo addressing the "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence" levied at schools. The memo sparked months of backlash and false claims that the attorney general believed parents who were concerned about education policy were "domestic terrorists."
In an attempt to stop the Justice Department from enforcing the memo, a group of parents from Virginia and Washington sued Garland, claiming the memo tried to silence parents who were lawfully protesting the "harmful, immoral, and racist policies of the 'progressive' Left" at their local schools.
Federal Judge Dabney Friedrich, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, ruled that the memo did little more than announce a "series of measures" that directed federal authorities to address increasing threats targeting school board members, teachers and other school employees.
"The alleged AG Policy is not regulatory, proscriptive, or compulsory in nature because it does not impose any regulations, requirements, or enforcement actions on individuals," Friedrich wrote. "None of the documents that the plaintiffs allege establish the policy create an imminent threat of future legal actions against anyone, much less the plaintiffs."
Friedrich noted the...
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