The Justice Department announced on Friday that it would not pursue action on the House's contempt referral of Attorney General Merrick Garland. This decision was based on the DOJ's longstanding position of not prosecuting executive branch officials who withhold information subject to executive privilege from Congress.
The House had voted, mostly along party lines, to hold Garland in contempt for failing to provide audio from President Joe Biden's interview in special counsel Robert Hur's classified documents investigation.
