President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) further reinforced its decision not to release the tape of Biden’s meeting with special counsel Robert Hur in a legal opinion released before the new year.
in opinion In a Dec. 20 letter, Assistant Attorney General Christopher Fonzone ordered Attorney General Merrick Garland to “arrest or fine Biden $10,000 per day” for complying with Biden’s decision to assert executive privilege. “Congress cannot exercise its constitutional contempt power to direct the imposition of a law.” from above the tape.
“To be sure, Congress may disagree with the President’s privilege claims, and this is not the first time Congress has objected to an executive branch withholding information on the basis of executive privilege,” the opinion states. “But what Congress cannot do is arrest, imprison, or impose burdensome economic sanctions on officials who carry out the president’s directives not to disclose information for which he has claimed executive privilege.”
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in him report Regarding Biden’s handling of classified documents, Hoare said Biden will likely present himself to the jury as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, old man with a bad memory.” (Related: Justice Department Blocks Conservative Groups, Media from Obtaining Biden-Her Tapes)
In June, the House passed a resolution along party lines that held Mr. Garland in contempt for failing to respond to a subpoena to release the tapes. Ministry of Justice I refused In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, they determined that Garland’s actions “did not constitute a crime” and prosecuted him.
In July, another House resolution to fine Garland $10,000 for each day he fails to comply with a subpoena also failed. Biden was initially called Executive privilege to block the release of the tape in May.
a lawsuit In July, the House Judiciary Committee filed a complaint against Garland asking that the recordings still exist. Ongoing.
“The audio recording, not the cold transcript, is the best available evidence of how President Biden presented himself during the interview,” the lawsuit says. state.
According to the Wall Street Journal, White House aides, including senior administration officials, have disconnected from Biden as his health deteriorates. reported December 19th CBS reporter Jean Crawford called Biden’s cognitive decline is the most “underreported” story of 2024.
The White House has repeatedly denied any signs of Biden’s decline and circulated an apparently frozen video of him as a “cheap fake.”
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