Republican lawmakers and conservatives reiterated calls Wednesday for Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate President Biden’s handling of classified documents after a second batch of Obama-era documents was discovered.
Fox News confirmed Wednesday that aides to Biden discovered at least one more batch of classified documents from his time as vice president in Biden’s possession. The finding comes just days after the White House revealed Monday evening that Biden’s personal attorneys handed over a trove of classified documents found at the president’s Washington D.C.-based think tank, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, to the National Archives.
“Attorney General Merrick Garland must appoint a special counsel,” Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, tweeted in response to the report Wednesday.
The House Judiciary Committee GOP, which is led by the panel’s chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, similarly tweeted that it was looking forward to Democratic lawmakers calling for a special counsel to be appointed.