WASHINGTON ― Republicans on Wednesday held U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, a symbolic rebuke of the nation’s top law enforcement official. Garland refused to hand over tapes of President Joe Biden’s October 2023 interview with former special counsel Robert Hur during Hur’s investigation of Biden’s mishandling of classified information after he […]
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday rejected claims of hypocrisy with House Republicans pushing a contempt of Congress charge against Attorney General Merrick Garland when Rep. Jim Jordan and other Republicans refused to comply with January 6th committee subpoenas. “You talk about apples to oranges, there couldn’t be a more clear contrast between that and what […]
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. At issue is Garland’s failure to hand over audio of special counsel Robert Hur‘s interview with President Joe Biden about his handling of classified documents. Republicans had demanded the audio after Hur declined […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected Wednesday to vote on a resolution holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview in his classified documents case, a move that comes just weeks after the White House blocked release of the recording to lawmakers. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland is at risk of becoming the third attorney general in U.S. history to be held in contempt of Congress as Republicans move to punish the Justice Department for refusing to turn over audio related to President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. Contempt is one of U.S. lawmakers’ politically messiest […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland called the increasing attacks against the Department of Justice “dangerous to our democracy” in a Washington Post op-ed published Tuesday morning. In the piece, Garland defended the DOJ against recent threats made by allies of former President Donald Trump to defund the work of special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting […]
will the Department of Justice provide to the committee all documents, all correspondence between the department and Alvin Bragg’s office and Fannie Willis’s office and Letitia James’s office? The offices you’re referring to are independent offices of state. I get that, I get that. The question is whether or not you will provide all of […]
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland pushed back on Republican attacks on the justice system during a grueling House committee hearing on Tuesday days after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of scheming to interfere in the 2016 election by hiding hush money payments to a porn star. Garland, […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland is pushing back forcefully on “false” and “extremely dangerous” narratives he says are being spread about the Department of Justice in an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The hearing comes as House GOP lawmakers threaten to hold Garland in contempt for withholding records they’ve subpoenaed from Special Counsel […]
The second question is, obviously, the House appears poised to move ahead with the contempt resolution on you. I just wonder if you have any comments on it, or if you could tell us whether or not you watched the House Oversight Committee meeting the other night. I caught part of that hearing on Saturday […]
May 23—A man was shot and killed early Thursday in the Garland Business District. Police were called to the scene on Garland Avenue between Post and Wall streets about 5:30 a.m., said Det. Chan Erdman. A Spokane police news release said officers found a man with gunshot wounds. First responders tried to save him, but […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump‘s claim that the Biden administration authorized the FBI to use deadly force against him during a search of his Mar-a-Lago property for classified documents. “That allegation is false, and it is extremely dangerous,” Garland said at a news conference. Garland was responding to Trump’s […]