<p>The GOP-led <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> passed a resolution on Wednesday to hold Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> in contempt of Congress for withholding subpoenaed recordings from the investigation into President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s handling of classified documents led by special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-hur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Hur</a>.</p>
<p>In a vote <a href="https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/1800993155715678335" target="_blank" rel="noopener">largely party-line vote</a>, 216 Republicans backed the measure while 206 Democrats and one Republican opposed it. Eight members, including one Republican and seven Democrats, did not vote. Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) was the <a href="https://x.com/liz_elkind/status/1800993131959112057" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sole</a> Republican who <a href="https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1800993826602967454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted against the resolution</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t allow the Department of Justice, an executive branch agency, to hide information from Congress. We have important oversight responsibilities, and that is what is being pursued here,&#8221; Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said during a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj9OAG1mvkg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> before the vote on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Garland drew the ire of Republicans for not fully complying with two subpoenas that demanded tapes of Hur&#8217;s two-day interview with Biden and of the special counsel&#8217;s interview with Biden&#8217;s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, arguing that such a request would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/garland-under-threat-of-contempt-calls-house-gops-request-for-biden-tapes-illegitimate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impede future investigations</a>.</p>
<p>Contempt of Congress proceedings <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-judiciary-to-begin-contempt-proceedings-against-garland-over-biden-docs-probe-audio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have been going on</a> since last month and Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-asserts-executive-privilege-over-tapes-in-docs-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserting</a> executive privilege over the tapes failed to quell that endeavor. Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-judiciary-to-begin-contempt-proceedings-against-garland-over-biden-docs-probe-audio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Republicans believe such privilege got waived when the transcripts were released.</p>
<p>The contempt resolution could, in theory, prompt a Department of Justice (DOJ) case that <a href="https://apnews.com/article/garland-contempt-biden-classified-documents-justice-department-bc2fb71b225ae672eb257ee2055cfa67" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could result in Garland facing</a> up to a year of prison time and as much as $100,000 in fines. However, a DOJ memo obtained by The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4718115-garland-contempt-doj-memo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insists</a> Garland is shielded from prosecution because of privilege.</p>
<p>The report from Hur&#8217;s team described Biden as a &#8220;sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory&#8221; whom a jury likely would not convict &#8220;of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.&#8221; Prosecutors ultimately declined to recommend charges against the president.</p>
<p>Hur also found that Zwonitzer deleted recordings of conversations with Biden upon learning about the documents inquiry. <b></b>But the ghostwriter provided &#8220;plausible, innocent reasons&#8221; for his actions during the interview and Hur&#8217;s team said they ultimately determined the evidence would not suffice for a conviction on obstruction of justice, according to the special counsel report.</p>
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<p>Biden rejected Hur&#8217;s characterizations in his report, but Garland insisted that it would have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/garland-says-censoring-hurs-biden-docs-report-would-have-been-absurd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;absurd&#8221;</a> for someone in his position to have edited or censored the special counsel&#8217;s explanation.</p>
<p>The fight over the Hur probe audio comes as Biden is running for a second term, paving the way toward another face-off against former President Donald Trump, who faces his own classified records case and was just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/verdict-trump-found-guilty-on-all-charges-in-hush-money-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> in a hush-money trial in New York. Democrats claimed the push to hold Garland in contempt of Congress was meant to <a href="https://x.com/Newsweek/status/1800943698189951319" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;placate&#8221;</a> and boost Trump.</p>

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