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The Republican-led House is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.
At issue is Garland's failure to hand over audio of special counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Joe Biden about his handling of classified documents. Republicans had demanded the audio after Hur declined to prosecute Biden, in part because a jury might sympathize with him as an "elderly man with a poor memory."
House Republicans are scheduled Wednesday to vote on holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over the audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interviews with former special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden’s handling of classified material and declined to bring charges.
The vote would be a major escalation in a monthslong dispute over the recordings between House Republicans and the executive branch that came after Biden asserted executive privilege over the files.
Holding the nation’s top law enforcement officer in contempt would build on Republican allegations that the Justice Department has been weaponized against conservatives, claims that have been particularly ratcheted up in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s conviction in New York for falsifying business records.
Through their subpoena fight with the Justice Department, House Republicans have argued that the audio recordings are crucial to their impeachment inquiry into Biden, which remains stalled as the prospects of the investigation ending in impeachment are increasingly unlikely.
The House Rules Committee is set to vote Tuesday at noon on the markup on whether or not Attorney General Merrick Garland will be held in contempt of Congress.
Garland is being considered to be held in contempt due to withholding audio recordings of special counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Joe Biden over classified documents. A transcript of the interview has been released. In the document, Hur described Biden as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

Two House committees, the Oversight and Judiciary committees, previously voted along party lines to advance a report recommending that he be held in contempt.


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