House Panel to Initiate Contempt Proceedings Against Garland by Jackson Richman, Samantha Flom – US Politics News

The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to mark up a resolution on May 16 to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.
The committee’s reason was Mr. Garland’s refusal to turn over audio tapes of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Joe Biden over his alleged mishandling of classified information, a source familiar told The Epoch Times on May 6.
The committee will mark up a resolution during a hearing where amendments can be added before the measure is passed out of the committee and sent to the House floor.
The measure would need to pass the House before a referral is made to the Justice Department, but whether Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) would bring a resolution to the floor is unclear….