The House Judiciary Committee sued Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday in their latest attempt to obtain the audio recordings of former special counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Joe Biden and his ghostwriter.
The Republican-led committee asked the DC district court to overrule Biden’s assertion of executive privilege over the recordings and force Garland to hand the recordings over to Congress.
House Republicans and the Department of Justice have been in a heated back and forth for months over the recordings, including the House holding Garland in contempt of Congress last month.
The tapes are foundational to Hur’s conclusions not to charge Biden with criminal mishandling of classified records, including Hur’s damning assessment that Biden would be sympathetic to a jury because he is a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
In their court filing, Republicans outlined why the recordings were vital to assessing the president’s mental state, which has come under intense scrutiny since his alarming debate performance against former President Donald Trump. Additional audio of Biden could drive home the reality of Biden’s feebleness at 81 years old.
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