House Republicans voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt — they don’t like him either, but the vote was official business. They voted to hold him in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the subpoenaed recording of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. Hur found President Biden to be incompetent to stand trial and thus found charges based on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents to be inappropriate. Not unreasonably, House Republicans want to go to the tape.
Unlike Trump partisans who have been held in contempt of Congress, Garland need not worry about the consequences of his defiance. There is no chance that his he will be prosecuted. The vote may nevertheless serve the purpose of illustrating the two-track system of justice in the Biden regime.
As the House Judiciary Committee moved to hold Garland in contempt, Biden invoked executive privilege to protect the recording of Hur’s interview upon Garland’s recommendation for him to do so. Attorney James Burnham demonstrated the utter vacuity of the executive privilege claim in the Wall Street Journal column “Biden, Nixon and the Hur Report.” (Before it ran the column, the Journal published this editorial.)
NRO’s James Lynch has a good story full of relevant background on the vote here. Lynch quotes Garland’s statement responding to the vote: “I will always stand up for this Department, its employees, and its vital mission to defend our democracy.” If we revise that to “our democracy™,” you can see his point.
