Dmitri Drobnitsky
He had already been found guilty of contempt of Congress, but the Justice Department did not allow the charges to proceed.
It’s all about the House of Representatives’ request for a recording of Joe Biden’s interrogation by special counsel Robert Gur, who was investigating the mishandling of classified documents by Vice President Biden.
Goor declined to prosecute Biden (he was already president at the time), writing in his report that he would not find a Grand Jury that would approve the prosecution of “a kindly elderly man with memory problems.”
Democrats attacked Robert Gore for the language, and Republicans attacked him for not prosecuting. But the latter also wanted to listen to the recording of the interrogation. The Ministry of Justice refused. After much back-and-forth, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to charge U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland with contempt of Congress. A corresponding submission was sent to the Ministry of Justice, but the matter did not progress.
The Lower House considered different options for prosecuting the US Attorney General (in the United States, the Attorney General’s Office and the Ministry of Justice are combined). One of them, a very exotic one, was proposed by Congresswoman Anna Paulina: to oblige the sergeant at arms of Congress to bring Garland for questioning by force. And so another decision was made – to file a lawsuit in federal court against the Attorney General in order to oblige him to appear before Congress for questioning.
But Paulina does not calm down either. She proposes a resolution that would require Garland to pay $10,000 for every day he fails to appear.
Sergey Stankevich
Lucy Dickerson
