'We can't even get a majority vote': Andy Biggs whines about plan to jail Merrick Garland
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) complained Tuesday that Republicans don't have the votes in the U.S. House of Representatives to arrest Attorney General Merrick Garland by holding him in inherent contempt.
During an interview on the War Room podcast, while host Steve Bannon was in prison, Biggs talked to guest host Jack Posobiec about Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's (R-FL) resolution to punish Garland after he cited executive privilege and refused to turn over tapes of President Joe Biden.
The recordings were part of special counsel Robert Hur's investigation, which declined to indict Biden for mishandling classified documents.
"We miss Steve," Biggs began with a nod to Bannon. "And we've got to do more to right this ship. This is absolutely horrific."
Biggs said the solution was to "deliver the same kind of pain to the other side."
The lawmaker pointed to Luna's attempt to arrest Garland by holding him in inherent contempt using an obscure rule that has been dormant for nearly 100 years.
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"But we can't even get a majority vote to actually hold Merrick Garland and bring him in with Sergeant at Arms, holds him in custody until he gives us the audio of that special counsel interview with Joe Biden," Biggs griped. "We'll probably end up with a $10,000 day, a $3 million a month fine."
"But they're going to immediately throw, you know, a spoke into the wheel on that," he continued. "We need to even it up because when you do that, this type of thing where they go after people like Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, and others, it dries up because they experienced the same pain, and they don't want to experience that pain."
Biggs said he wasn't sure House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) would enforce sanctions against Garland.
"The question at that point is, once the authority is there, will the speaker go ahead and begin imposing that upon Merrick Garland?" the Republican lawmaker remarked.