on Wednesday held U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, a symbolic rebuke of the nation’s top law enforcement official.’s October 2023 interview with former special counsel Robert Hur during Hur’s investigation of Biden’s mishandling of classified information after he was vice president., one reason he decided against prosecuting Biden is that the president would’ve come off to a jury as an “elderly man with a poor memory.
And House Oversight Committee chair James Comer told reporters last month that he suspected the transcript could have been edited by a Justice Department that supposedly protects the Bidens. “We have every reason to doubt some of the things that they would do,” Comer said. “Someone has protected this family for many, many years.”to protect Biden, however, it didn’t do a great job. Biden at one point struggles to place the year of his own son’s death in a sequence of major life events that included his decision not to run for president in 2016.
Contempt resolutions typically ask the Justice Department to prosecute the person held in contempt — an unlikely outcome in Garland’s case. Biden has asserted executive privilege over the raw audio, and Garland said releasing it would discouraged future witnesses from cooperating with investigations like Biden did.
Both the House judiciary and oversight committees approved contempt resolutions against Garland. The oversight committee’s markup will live in infamy asBy entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. You are also agreeing to our