The Justice Department said Friday it would not prosecute Attorney General Merrick B. Garland after the House held him in contempt of Congress earlier this week over a subpoena dispute.
House Republicans, who passed the contempt measure on a nearly party-line vote, said the Justice Department had refused to release audio of former special counsel Robert K. Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden, despite subpoenas from the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
In a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson dated Friday, a Justice Department official said the department “has determined that the responses by Attorney General Garland to the subpoenas issued by the Committees did not constitute a crime.”
