Attorney General Merrick Garland was placed in contempt of Congress on Thursday after the House Judiciary Committee approved an ordinance to make public voice recordings of President Joe Biden’s conversation with particular counsel Robert Hur.
The whole House may approve the quality, which is mainly symbolic, to actually hold , Garland in contempt. Democrats continue to pass the solution with a lukewarm majority in the House.
Garland would follow Eric Holder, Obama’s attorney general, and Bill Bar, Trump ‘s , attorney general, to be held in contempt if the House passes the solution.
Despite numerous warnings and calls for the music, Garland defied a last caution in April to comply with a summons for the saving of Biden’s meeting with Hur. Republicans want the music as part of their investigation into Biden’s participation in the Trump business.
Hur’s investigation of Biden, which concluded in February,  , found , Biden “willfully” retained classified documents but declined to prosecute him, citing “insufficient evidence” . , Hur characterized Biden in his report as” an elderly man with a poor memory”. The leader  , experienced , mental errors and “poor storage” at least seven times during his meeting with Hur, according to a record obtained by Breitbart News.
Biden asserted executive privilege just before the committee convened on Thursday to discuss the hatred solution. In response, the DOJ claimed that because of Biden’s senior pleasure, Congress cannot acquiesce to Garland’s demands.
Garland said that disclosing the sound “would increase an undesirable risk” of undermining” similar high-profile criminal investigations— particularly those where the voluntary cooperation of White House officials is extremely important.”
Republicans were undeterred.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY ) stated in a statement that” we will proceed with its recommendation to the House of Representatives to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt of Congress for defying a lawful subpoena. The White House claims executive privilege over the interviews, but it has already waived it by releasing the text of the exam.
” He was transparent”, Sams told reporters. ” He had nothing to hide”.
🚨FLASHBACK🚨
White House official Ian Sams complained that Joe Biden did not exercise executive privilege during Unique Counsel Hur’s research in February.
” He had nothing to hide”.
Why is Biden then hiding behind Executive Privilege? photograph. twitter.com/UyJlezliv1
— House Republicans ( @HouseGOP) May 16, 2024
Steven Cheung, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, claimed Biden’s senior buy constituted a double standard.
The fundamental democratic principle of executive privilege has been irrecoverably politicized by Crooked Joe Biden and his poor administration, saying they have actively tried to use it to cover up Broken Joe’s political cover while denying it to their social opponents.
Wendell Husebo worked for Breitbart News as a social scientist before becoming a Republican War Room Analyst. He is the creator of , Politicians of Slave Morality.  , Follow Wendell on ,” X” , @Wendell Husebø or on , Truth Social , @Wendell Husebo.