(The Center Square) – Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has filed an amicus brief in support of Loudoun County parents “silenced” by the school board.
The brief was filed in hopes of urging the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to defend the parents’ free speech. A District Court issued a “denial of a preliminary injunction against the Loudoun County School Board for silencing parents” who were critical of the district’s decision to reenroll a student with alleged gang ties and firearm offenses.
The brief contends that the school board’s “actions constitute classic viewpoint discrimination, where speech is censored solely because officials disagree with its content in direct violation of the First Amendment.”…