House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is scrambling to whip votes for contempt charges against Joe Biden ‘s Attorney General Merrick Garland ahead of a preliminary Rules Committee vote on Tuesday. Garland has refused to hand over audio recordings of Biden’s two interviews with Department of Justice ( DOJ ) special counsel Robert Hur, in which written transcripts indicate the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent suffered numerous memory lapses and was sometimes visibly confused.
The Rules Committee vote means the Garland contempt resolution could see a vote before the full House of Representatives as soon as Wednesday. However, indecisiveness and internal hand-wringing by House leadership have allowed the contempt process to drag out for over a month, and now a group of moderate Republicans is threatening to derail a final vote altogether.
Moderate Republicans, numbering around ten or more, are demanding House leadership delay the vote in the hopes they can negotiate an off-ramp […]
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