House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan announced on Wednesday that the full chamber would be voting to hold U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over sought-after materials to President Joe Biden.
Jordan said the GOP-led House has been requesting an audio recording of an interview former special counsel Robert Hur conducted with Biden during his investigation into the former vice president’s illegal retention and disclosure of classified information.
Hur said his probe discovered that Biden had indeed broken laws governing such information but that he did not believe a jury would find the aged and declining president guilty, so he chose not to file charges.
In a statement to reporters, Jordan, an Ohio Republican, said that the House had given Garland every opportunity to comply with congressional requests for the audio file as the House continues its impeachment inquiry into Biden but that he refused to turn it over, citing executive privilege.
Jordan requested last week that Bragg and prosecutor Matthew Colangelo provide testimony regarding what he has called a “kangaroo court” that resulted in Trump’s unprecedented criminal conviction. The former president and presumptive 2024 GOP nominee was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.