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Resisting pressure from President Donald Trump, three of the nation's largest school districts said Monday that they will begin the new school year with all students learning from home.
Schools in Los Angeles, San Diego and Atlanta will begin entirely online, officials said Monday. Schools in Nashville plan to do the same, at least through Labor Day.
Senator Josh Hawley is calling for a federal civil rights investigation into St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner after claiming she is "targeting the McCloskey family for using firearms to defend themselves and their property against a mob of protesters."
"This is an unacceptable abuse of power and threat to the Second Amendment, and I urge you to consider a federal civil rights investigation into the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office to determine whether this investigation and impending prosecution violates this family's constitutional rights," Hawley wrote.
"I am deeply disappointed that a U.S. Senator would intervene in a local matter that is under investigation," said Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner in a statement.
Hawley's letter:
Comment: "...since the chances of being infected with coronavirus in the open air are low." And that, concisely, is the rebuttal on lockdown protocol. Stringing together even two pieces of proven logic is more than most 'authorities' care to consider.