Garland Gets a Final Warning to Comply with Biden Audio Subpoena or Face Contempt

Garland Gets a Final Warning to Comply with Biden Audio Subpoena or Face Contempt


Attorney General Merrick Garland received a final warning Tuesday to comply with subpoenas for the audio of President Joe Biden’s  interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

If Garland does not comply, he will face contempt of Congress proceedings, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote Garland.

Biden’s Justice Department previously offered to provide the transcript of Hur’s interview with Biden’s book ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, Axios reported, but Republicans say Biden’s transcript and audio are needed to conduct oversight of the president’s classified document scandal. The Republicans wrote:

On February 27, 2024, the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability issued subpoenas to you for a narrow and specific set of material in the Department

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