AG Blanche holds event to expose 'systemic abuse' inside Biden's DOJ to crush parents

On Thursday, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) hosted a roundtable discussion on alleged weaponization against parents in schools, in which officials and parents exposed an "anti-MAGA task force" at former President Joe Biden's DOJ and FBI.

"This is an insidious network that works every day to separate children from their parents," former Gov. Glenn Youngkin warned. 

Youngkin, whose state of Virginia, particularly Loudoun County, was under the national spotlight for parental rights issues, bemoaned the Biden administration's lack of willingness to collaborate on investigative efforts but said that following era, "for one beautiful year, I had an administration that worked with me," speaking of President Donald Trump's administration during the final year of Youngkin's governorship.

Teacher's unions, school boards under Biden called parents' concerns "a form of domestic terrorism"

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who opened the hearing, also voiced dire concerns about "systemic abuse" by the Biden administration, as well as the Biden DOJ and the National School Board Association (NSBA) during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

He reflected on COVID-19 policies that reportedly harmed children during the pandemic and said that when parents voiced concerns about these issues, they were targeted and censored, including a letter sent by the NSBA to Biden stating that perceived threats against school officials over policy concerns "could be the equivalent of a form of domestic terrorism."

Parents were raising such concerns as secret gender support plans, technology to conceal changes to names, gender or pronouns from parents, and secret abortion services for minors, according to fellow panelist Education Secretary Linda McMahon. 

The Biden/Wray FBI targeted parents who did not toe the government line

Biden's FBI was also implicated in the allegations of weaponization. 

Under Biden's FBI Director Christopher Wray, who was originally nominated to the position by President Donald Trump during his first term as president, there were rampant claims that the bureau, often in coordination with the DOJ, selectively targeted conservatives, Republicans (including Trump allies and members of Congress), pro-life activists, and concerned parents through investigations and raids, while downplaying or reprioritizing similar scrutiny of left-leaning groups. 

FBI Director Kash Patel told the other panelists and guests that "we have reprioritized what we do here at the FBI, to protect parents and defend the homeland," which was a welcome proclamation in light of the FBI's participation in many of the incidents.

One example of concern — particularly to America's roughly 50 million Catholics — was that of the now-infamous Richmond Catholic memo. In January 2023, the FBI’s Richmond Field Office produced an internal memo assessing potential overlaps between “radical traditionalist Catholics” (RTCs) and racially motivated violent extremists. 

The document highlighted fringe groups that rejected the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, called "Vatican II," with those groups often falsely linked to anti-Semitic or white nationalist views, and suggested opportunities for resource development in Catholic communities. 

Critics noted the memo’s reliance on the now-disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center characterizations and its broad framing risked conflating legitimate religious traditionalism with extremism, creating an appearance of religious profiling. Though the FBI retracted it, the episode exposed ongoing concerns about the Bureau’s analytical rigor and impartiality when evaluating faith-based communities. 

Patel closed his remarks by confirming to the group that he had "terminated everyone to do with the Richmond Catholic memo." 

School district coverup of sex crimes, assault 

One of the most significant testimonies was that of Scott Smith, a Loudon County father whose daughter was raped by a male student in a girls’ bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in May 2021. The school district reportedly covered it up to advance its transgender bathroom policy, downplayed the incident, and failed to notify parents or lock down the school. The perpetrator went on to recommit similar crimes at another school in October 2021.

At a June 2021 school board meeting, Smith was arrested for disorderly conduct after heated protests. He was convicted but received a full pardon from Youngkin in 2023 and his family later sued the district for $30M over Title IX violations. 

The perpetrator was convicted as a juvenile of sexual battery, abduction, and two counts of sodomy (plus a separate assault at Broad Run High School). He was later released at age 18.

The hearing closed with a comparatively upbeat reflection by deputy Attorney General Stanley Woodward. He told the group that he felt these institutions were not sour to the core. "There was quite a bit of dissent within the DOJ," and that one agent reportedly called the actions "essentially an anti-MAGA task force," seeing the partisan nature of what was transpiring within the J. Edgar Hoover Building. 

Amanda Head serves as White House Correspondent for Just The News. You can follow her here.