Merrick Garland

WATCH: Garland announces Ticketmaster, Live Nation anti-trust lawsuit

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Associated Press

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 14, 2023. Photo by Leah Millis/REUTERS

WATCH: White House holds news briefing as House GOP advances contempt charges over Biden audio

The rapid sequence of events further inflamed tensions between House Republicans and the Justice Department, setting the stage for another round of bitter fighting between the two branches of government that seemed nearly certain to spill over into court.

By Associated Press

U.S. President Joe Biden attends the annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service in Washington

Biden uses executive privilege block GOP access to special counsel interview audio

President Biden used executive privilege to deny House Republicans access to audio from his interview with special counsel Robert Hur. The October 2023 interview centered on the president’s handling of classified documents. Republicans requested the audio and planned to hold…

By Amna Nawaz, Shrai Popat

Politics May 16

White House blocks audio of Biden’s special counsel interview, arguing GOP has political motives

“The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal — to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes," White House counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a scathing letter to…

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Colleen Long, Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press

WATCH: White House holds briefing as Biden asserts privilege over tapes with special prosecutor

The White House has blocked the release of the audio, arguing Republicans in Congress only want the recordings “to chop them up” and use them for political purposes as the Democratic president seeks reelection.

By News Desk and Associated Press

WATCH: House panel advances effort to hold AG Garland in contempt of Congress

By News Desk and Associated Press

The House panel voted Thursday afternoon to advance the contempt maneuver. A similar vote is scheduled for later Thursday with the House oversight committee.

WATCH: Attorney General Garland, FBI Director Wray give remarks on threats to November election

By News Desk

Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray held a news briefing Monday at the beginning of the Election Threats Task Force meeting.

WATCH: Garland speaks at inaugural Gun Violence Survivors’ Summit

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday said that America’s gun violence problem can sometimes feel so enormous that it seems like nothing can be done. But, he added, “that could not be farther from the truth.”…

WATCH: Garland defends Biden’s mental fitness and says he has ‘complete confidence’ in him

By Associated Press

Garland appeared Tuesday before a House committee overseeing funding for the Justice Department and answered questions on the report from special counsel Robert Hur about Biden's handling of classified material.

DOJ blasts GOP effort to hold Garland in contempt over Biden special counsel audio

By Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press

In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, the Justice Department rejected the demand from House Republicans that the agency turn over the full audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur's hourslong interviews with Biden and his ghostwriter.

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