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AG Merrick Garland Could Be Arrested. Here’s How.

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for his efforts to cover up the audio of Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur over his mishandling of classified documents—which is allegedly even more damning than the publicly available transcript.

“ContemptisoneofU.S.lawmakers’politicallymessiestand,untilrecentyears,least-usedpowers.ItisatoolthattheHouseandtheSenatecanemployeithertocoercecompliancewithasubpoenaortoremoveanyobstructionfromanongoinginvestigation,”explnstheAssociatedPress.“Byapprovingacontemptresolution,theHouseeffectivelyrecommendedthatGarlandbeprosecuted.AndrecentcasesagainstalliesofformerPresidentDonaldTrumpincludingSteveBannonandPeterNavarrohaveprovedthatacontemptresolutionisfarfromsymbolic,creatingthebasisforacasethatcansometimesholdupincourt.” TheDepartmentofJustice,however,hasdeterminedthatGarlandisabovethelaw,andwillnotbeprosecuted. “Fornearlysevendecadesandacrosspresidentialadministrationsofbothpar