The House Judiciary Committee asked a judge on Friday to accelerate forcing Attorney General Merrick Garland to hand over audio recordings of an interview between former special counsel Robert Hur and President Joe Biden.
House attorneys said in court papers that a preliminary injunction was necessary because the “clock on the 118th Congress” is “ticking,” and the audio recordings were needed for lawmakers to perform their oversight duties adequately and conclude their impeachment inquiry into the president.
The request comes as part of House Republicans’ fight with the Department of Justice to obtain tapes from the interview Hur conducted last fall with Biden during his inquiry into the president’s handling of classified material. Biden, 81, came off as a “well-meaning, elderly man” with a declining memory during the interview, Hur said. The special counsel declined…
