Now, the U.S. attorney general has weaponized the enormous might of the federal government against parents exercising their constitutional rights.
Parents have an undisputed right to direct the upbringing and education of their children. The Supreme Court has called this parental right, rooted in the Constitution, “perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court.”
The Constitution itself alludes to parental rights, noting in the Preamble that the Founders drafted the document, in part, to secure “the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
Parents exercise their rights
As local school boards began to impose a far-left agenda, parents began to exercise their rights. Many started to speak up, protesting vigorously against critical race theory curricula, COVID restrictions on students and other controversial policies.