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<font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">WASHINGTON—The House on June 12 voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena to produce audio tapes of President Joe Biden’s interviews with special counsel Robert Hur. In a mostly party-line 216–207 vote, the House passed a measure to recommend criminal charges for Mr. Garland. One Republican, Ohio Rep. David Joyce, joined all Democrats to vote against the resolution. A referral will now be made to the Justice Department, which is unlikely to prosecute the matter, so it may end up in the courts. The passage of the resolution is the culmination of a monthslong standoff between House Republicans and the Justice Department over the production recordings of President Biden’s two-day interview conducted with Mr. Hur in a probe related to the handling of classified documents. President Biden has invoked executive privilege over the tapes. Speaking at the Republicans’ weekly press conference ahead of the vote, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) argued that Mr. Garland “doesn’t get to decide whether he’s going to comply with a subpoena or not.” Mr. Hur’s report, in reaching its conclusion not to recommend charges against the president, cited that President Biden would present to a jury as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”</font></font>