Dillon Burroughs at The
Daily Wire reports
Virginia Republican Attorney
General Jason Miyares sent a letter signed by 20 GOP attorneys general on
Thursday to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
threatening legal action against its ‘un-American’ Disinformation Governance
Board.
. . .
“Freedom of speech is the bedrock
of democracy. Instead of protecting and fostering it, this administration wants
to create an organization that would have federal bureaucrats monitoring
citizens’ speech. This would undoubtedly lead to Americans self-censoring their
ideas and debates. I am concerned about the spread of false information, but
creating a federal agency to police speech is not the way to address it. As the
Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, I cannot stand by as the rights
of every Virginian are being threatened. The war on the First Amendment must
stop,” he wrote.
In addition to Virginia, the other
states represented in the letter include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
The effort comes following another
letter by Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent to new
Disinformation Governance Board leader Nina Jankowicz asking her to provide
testimony regarding her new role.
The letter was signed by Ohio
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, a ranking member of the committee, along with 11
additional GOP House Judiciary Committee members. . . .
Good to see that Ohio is on the list. Read the full report
here.
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