Attorney General Merrick Garland fires back at House GOP contempt threat: 'I will not be intimidated'
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday hit back at House Republicans threatening to hold him in contempt, calling their efforts part of a wave of "unprecedented and unfounded" attacks against the Department of Justice. "I will not be intimidated," Garland said in his opening remarks at the start of a hearing before the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee. "The Justice Department will not be intimidated," he said. "We will continue to do our jobs free from political influence. And we will not back down from defending our democracy." He also pushed back on the swell of conspiracy theories surrounding Thursday's historic crimina