Speaker Johnson says House will go to court for Biden audio after Justice Dept. refused to prosecute

[Zorro]

Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will go to court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Biden’s special counsel audio interview, hours after the Justice Department refused to prosecute Republicans’ contempt of Congress charge.

“It is sadly predictable that the Biden Administration’s Justice Department will not prosecute Garland for defying congressional subpoenas even though the department aggressively prosecuted Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro for the same thing,” Johnson said in a statement. “This is yet another example of the two-tiered system of justice brought to us by the Biden Administration.”

In a letter to Johnson earlier Friday, a Justice Department official cited the agency’s “longstanding position and uniform practice” to not prosecute officials who don’t comply with subpoenas because of a president’s claim of executive privilege.

The Democratic president last month asserted executive privilege to block the release of the audio, which the White House says Republicans want only for political purposes. Republicans moved forward with the contempt effort anyway, voting Wednesday to punish Garland for refusing to provide the recording.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/06/14/speaker-johnson-says-house-will-go-to-court-for-biden-audio-after-justice-dept-refused-to-prosecute/

Whenever I think Johnson and the Republicans just cannot be more useless, they show me that indeed they can be more useless...

[Goodheart]

1. Is that stupid holy roller fucker too stupid to understand the difference between Steve Bannon and Merrick Garland?

[haele]

4. He can't tell the difference between Jim Jordan and Merrick Garland.

All he can tell is the difference between Christian Nationalists and the rest of us unworthy heathens.

Haele

[Trueblue1968]

15. YES he is too stupid. I do not believe he is a Christian. he is too full of hate.

[Raven123]

2. It's not lime they have any work to do. Geesh

[CincyDem]

3. They'll have Gomert file it so it lands on Kazmeryk's docket. SCOTUS here we come. n/t

[Boomerproud]

5. You're the one thats sadly predictable.

Everyone knows why they want the audio, so they can (and will) manipulate.

[LiberalFighter]

6. There were audio tapes of Bannon and Navarro?

I guess a transcript isn't considered enough. Or are the words too complicated for him to understand?

[piddyprints]

7. Wait...

Remind me again why the Dems saved his sorry ass? SMDH

[Biophilic]

8. They honestly have nothing better to do?

No, I know their job right now is to push for trump’s election. Then the powers behind Project 2025 can take over and change our country forever. Little Mikey can hardly wait to push his radical Christian agenda.

[Emile]

9. The guy who makes their propaganda films needs

this recording so he can cut it and make President Biden look like he is saying something else.

[kacekwl]

10. Of course they will

because the American people have no other concerns in their lives. They have the transcripts so they can GFT.

[FloridaBlues]

11. Can't see over ruling the statement from DOJ . Over turning

An EO would be unlikely. No President would be safe from doing ex order.

[MichMan]

12. I'm guessing they'll say that since the transcripts were not claimed to be under executive privilege

The audio recordings they came from aren't either.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Unless their action is dismissed, the appeals

will go past November.

[republianmushroom]

14. presidential claim of executive privilege, what part of this doesn't Johnson understand.

Maybe, he should ask his orange convicted felon God, for an understanding.