IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 743 
Impeaching Merrick Brian Garland, Attorney General of the United States, 
for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 22, 2021 
Mr. PERRY (for himself and Mr. BIGGS) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Impeaching Merrick Brian Garland, Attorney General of the 
United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
Resolved, That Merrick Brian Garland, Attorney Gen-
eral, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and 
that the following Articles of Impeachment be exhibited 
to the United States Senate: 
Articles of Impeachment exhibited by the House of 
Representatives of the United States of America in the 
name of itself and of the people of the United States of 
America, against Merrick Brian Garland, Attorney Gen-
eral, in maintenance and support of its impeachment 
against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
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ARTICLE I 
Merrick Brian Garland, in his conduct while Attorney 
General, engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompat-
ible with his duties as an Officer of the United States, 
as follows: 
Attorney General Garland took an oath to defend and 
secure our country and uphold the Constitution when he 
was sworn in as Attorney General on March 11, 2021. 
Article II of the U.S. Constitution tasks the executive 
branch—which today includes the Attorney General—with 
ensuring the laws passed by Congress and signed into law 
by the President are faithfully executed. 
Attorney General Garland has failed to faithfully up-
hold his oath and has instead presided over a reckless and 
corrosive politicization of the Department of Justice at the 
expense of our Nation’s children. 
On September 29, 2021, the National School Boards 
Association (NSBA) sent a letter to President Biden re-
questing a joint expedited review by the U.S. Departments 
of Justice, Education, and Homeland Security examining 
appropriate enforceable actions against alleged threats to 
school boards under Federal statutes including the USA 
PATRIOT Act (Public Law 107–56). 
The USA PATRIOT Act gave the Federal Govern-
ment expansive authority to violate the civil liberties of 
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everyday Americans, via methods including wiretapping; 
bulk collection of telephone metadata and other records; 
warrantless surveillance; sweeping powers of detention; in-
vestigations into lawful First Amendment activity; and the 
expanded use of National Security Letters. 
The Act has been used to investigate non-terrorism 
offenses, such as drug trafficking and copyright infringe-
ment. It was also unsuccessfully used to justify placing 
a GPS tracking device on an alleged drug trafficker in 
violation of the Fourth Amendment and secretly search 
homes and offices without probable cause. 
The Act also expanded the use of National Security 
Letters, which the Department of Justice has abused to 
obtain information outside the scope of suspected terrorist 
activities and without due process. A 2007 Department 
of Justice Office of Inspector General report found that 
the FBI obtained telephone records on over 700 occasions 
without even issuing an NSL or a grand jury subpoena. 
That report also found that the FBI used NSLs in viola-
tion of existing statutes and departmental guidelines and 
policies. 
On October 4, 2021, the Department of Justice re-
leased a memorandum from Attorney General Garland 
promising to announce a series of measures designed to 
address the alleged rise in criminal conduct toward school 
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personnel, including opening dedicated lines of commu-
nication for threat reporting. Attorney General Garland’s 
memo made no mention of the statutory authority or au-
thorities the Department would use to address those 
threats. 
The numerous, well-documented abuses of the PA-
TRIOT Act and other domestic terrorism statutes—often 
in contravention of Americans’ First, Fourth, and Fifth 
Amendment rights—should preclude them from consider-
ation in addressing unfounded and uninvestigated threats 
to school personnel. Their misuse by the Department of 
Justice will lead to a chilling effect on the protected speech 
of parents who wish to express legitimate concerns about 
their children’s education and safety, such as in the case 
of a father seeking answers in October 2021 after a male 
teenager allegedly raped and sodomized his daughter in 
a bathroom at a high school in Loudoun County, Virginia, 
which was cited as a specific example of school violence 
in the September 2021 National School Boards Associa-
tion’s letter. 
State school boards associations have likened this ap-
proach to Federal overreach and have expressed worries 
about its possible suppression of First Amendment activ-
ity. While the September 29, 2021, NSBA letter cited 
media reports about Virginia school board meetings, an 
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October 6, 2021, press release by the Virginia School 
Boards Association emphasized that they did not seek the 
involvement of Federal law enforcement officials in local 
decisions. Similarly, an October 11, 2021, Florida School 
Boards Association letter underscored the importance of 
free speech and their reliance on local and State law en-
forcement. The Pennsylvania School Boards Association 
voted to cancel its membership in the National School 
Boards Association entirely. 
Furthermore, devoting valuable Department of Jus-
tice resources to demonizing parents expressing constitu-
tional speech—such as questions about alleged sexual as-
saults—as domestic terrorists would dangerously limit the 
credibility and ability of the Department of Justice to 
prosecute verifiable terrorist threats. 
Attorney General Garland’s failure to explicitly de-
nounce the use of this statute will hamper legitimate First 
Amendment activity aimed at protecting American chil-
dren and improving our Nation’s schools while decreasing 
the resources available to pursue actual terrorists. 
Wherefore, Merrick Brian Garland, by such conduct, 
warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office. 
ARTICLE II 
Merrick Brian Garland, in his conduct while Attorney 
General, engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompat-
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ible with his duties as an Officer of the United States, 
as follows: 
Attorney General Garland took an oath to defend and 
secure our country and uphold the Constitution when he 
was sworn in as Attorney General on March 11, 2021. 
Article II of the U.S. Constitution tasks the executive 
branch—which today includes the Attorney General—with 
ensuring the laws passed by Congress and signed into law 
by the President are faithfully executed. 
Attorney General Garland has failed to faithfully up-
hold his oath and has by his actions, validated the belief 
of many Americans that the Department of Justice has 
been transformed into an unstoppable, partisan, Federal 
weapon used to officially punish political opponents. 
In an October 4, 2021, memorandum, Attorney Gen-
eral Garland announced that the Department of Justice 
would address alleged criminal conduct of lawful First 
Amendment activities objecting, among other things, to 
the teaching of ‘‘equity’’, ‘‘inclusion’’, and ‘‘critical race 
theory’’ concepts in public school districts. 
Attorney General Garland’s son-in-law is the co- 
founder of Panorama Education, which contracts with 
school districts to survey students on topics including ‘‘so-
cial-emotional learning’’ and ‘‘equity and inclusion’’. Pan-
orama Education’s investors include Facebook founder 
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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. According 
to its website, the company has previously contracted with 
the Hawaii Department of Public Education and the Fres-
no Unified School District. 
On June 8, 2021, Panorama Education was awarded 
a $1.8 million contract by Fairfax County Public Schools 
to conduct surveys on topics including race and ‘‘inclu-
sion’’ and implement ‘‘interventions’’. On September 9, 
2021, the contract was increased to $2.4 million. 
Despite Attorney General Garland’s close personal re-
lationship with an individual who stands to financially 
benefit from the promotion of ‘‘equity’’, ‘‘inclusion’’, and 
‘‘critical race theory’’ concepts in public school curricula— 
and the suppression of dissenting opinions—Attorney 
General Garland has not addressed this obvious conflict 
of interest. 
This lack of action runs counter to the steps that ca-
reer service executive branch officials, including Depart-
ment of Justice employees, must take to avoid ‘‘an appear-
ance of loss of impartiality’’, which include recusal from 
related matters and consultation with an agency ethics of-
ficial (5 CFR 2635.502). 
Attorney General Garland’s failure to address a pos-
sible conflict of interest demonstrates that he is unfit to 
hold the office of Attorney General. 
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Wherefore, Merrick Brian Garland, by such conduct, 
warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office. 
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