House Judiciary Committee Launches First Investigation With Jordan as Chair

Rep. Jim Jordan's first investigation leading the Judiciary Committee has commenced. House Judiciary Committee Republicans announced the Ohio Republican would probe President Biden's “mishandling” of classified documents and the Justice Department's response.

The Washington Examiner reports:

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, fired off a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday, demanding all documents and communications between the DOJ, the FBI, and the Executive Office of the President about Biden's apparent mishandling of classified information following his time as vice president during the Obama administration.

The Republican letter, co-signed by another top GOP member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), also demanded that Garland hand over details about the appointment of DOJ veteran and former Trump federal prosecutor Robert Hur to be the special counsel handling the Biden classified records saga.

Biden's lawyers have admitted that Obama-era records with classified markings on them were found in Biden's office at the Penn Biden Center in the nation's capital in early November, with more classified documents found in Biden's garage in Delaware in December, and then further classified documents found in his Delaware home on Thursday.

“We are conducting oversight of the Justice Department's actions with respect to former Vice President Biden's mishandling of classified documents, including the apparently unauthorized possession of classified material at a Washington, D.C. private office and in the garage of his Wilmington, Delaware residence,” the House Republicans told Garland in the Friday letter.

On Thursday, the attorney general appointed Robert Hur, former U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland, to serve as special counsel in the DOJ's investigation.

“His appointment underscores for the public the Department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law,” Garland said at a press conference announcing Hur's appointment.

In a statement, Hur promised to conduct an efficient investigation with “fair, impartial, and dispassionate judgment.”

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