Attorney General Merrick Garland responded on Wednesday to the House voting almost entirely along party lines to hold him in contempt of Congress, calling the move “deeply disappointing.”
Garland said it transformed contempt, a rare move lawmakers use as a last resort to enforce subpoenas, from a “serious congressional authority” into a “partisan weapon.”
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