House Republicans Sue Garland for Tapes of Hur Interview With Biden
2nd July 2024
House Republicans filed a lawsuit on July 1 against Attorney General Merrick Garland, seeking to force the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release the audiotapes of special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden in his classified documents probe.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, also asks the court to require the DOJ to hand over the audio of Mr. Hur’s interview with President Biden’s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, who wrote two memoirs for him.
The legal action came after the House Republicans last month voted to hold Mr. Garland in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena for tapes of Mr. Hur’s interview with the president. The White House has asserted executive privilege.
For those who haven’t been obsessing about all things Biden (and I can hardly blame you), Hur is the special prosecutor who decided not to indict Biden for his official-records retention (for which offense Trump is being prosecuted) because he would be too sympathetic a figure as a senile old man to get convicted.