House Republicans are expected to grill the attorney general about the federal prosecutions of Donald Trump and Hunter Biden.
Attorney General Merrick Garland will use an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to defend the Justice Department against “repeated attacks” from Republican lawmakers who have sought to undermine investigations and put federal employees in harm’s way, federal officials said.
Garland’s scheduled testimony before the House Judiciary Committee comes as GOP House leaders are threatening to hold him in contempt in their efforts to gain access to audio recordings from special counsel Robert K. Hur’s investigation into President Biden’s handling of classified materials.
Biden last month exerted executive privilege to keep the recordings from public view after Garland requested he do so over concerns that releasing them could harm future efforts to get officials to cooperate with investigations and sit for taped interviews.
“Certain members of this Committee and the Oversight Committee are seeking contempt as a means of obtaining — for no legitimate purpose — sensitive law enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations,” Garland plans to tell lawmakers at the hearing, according to excerpts of his opening remarks released by his office.
