The House is expected to vote Wednesday on a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt.
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That federal criminal investigation ended this year with no charges against Biden for mishandling classified information, in part because special counsel Robert Hur concluded a jury would likely view the president as a"sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory."Top Republican leaders worked Tuesday night to count votes to ensure the measure could pass in the narrowly divided chamber.
He and other House Republicans argued Tuesday that the Justice Department waived privilege over withholding the tapes once it gave the committees the transcripts of the interviews with Biden.The attorney general has said he engaged in extraordinary accommodation with lawmakers. Special counsel Hur provided five hours of congressional testimony about his findings.
Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, furthered that argument Tuesday in a hearing on the contempt measure. Asked whether Democrats will be unified against the contempt resolution, Rep Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat, told NPR that he expected the"overwhelming majority" of Democrats to vote no. He called the effort"frivolous, unconscionable, unnecessary and un-American.
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