Mike Johnson wants to take Merrick Garland contempt case to court

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is calling for the House of Representatives to take its contempt of Congress case against Attorney General Merrick Garland to court after the Department of Justice said it would not pursue charges. 

Johnson will be “certifying the contempt records to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia,” according to CNN, while moving to “enforce the subpoena of Attorney General Garland in federal court.”

“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 on Friday. “This is yet another example of the two-tiered system of justice brought to us by the Biden administration.”