Republicans Question Merrick Garland on Hunter Biden in Feisty Hearing

Attorney General Merrick Garland stressed the independence of the Justice Department’s criminal case against Hunter Biden, as Republicans accused him during a combative congressional hearing of showing leniency toward the son of the president who appointed him.

“I promised that I would not interfere with this investigation,” Garland repeatedly told lawmakers during a hearing Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee, where Republicans pelted him with rapid-fire questions about the Justice Department’s handling of the five-year-long probe into Hunter Biden. Over and over, Garland denied slow-walking or stymying the inquiry, saying he gave the prosecutor overseeing the case broad authority to handle it however he saw fit.