20 GOP Attorneys General Threaten Legal Action Over ‘Un-American’ Disinformation Board

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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.

The letter claims that the new board violates the constitutional freedoms that attorneys general are called to defend.

“As the chief legal officers of our respective States, we the undersigned Attorneys General are tasked not just with enforcing the laws, but with protecting the constitutional rights of all our citizens,” the GOP leaders wrote.

“Today we write...

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