U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-MD, talks with reporters as he leaves the U.S. Capitol for the weekend on May 17, 2024, in Washington. Raskin answered questions on the House Oversight Committee’s meeting to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. Yes, you may have heard that old joke about a hockey game. But the partisan eruptions in Congress these days sometimes make it hard to tell the difference.
Things began peacefully enough, then went off the rails after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican who loves the spotlight, asked an out-of-nowhere question: Were any of the Democrats on the panel employing the daughter of New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in New York.
But Crockett was not about to play along. “Please tell me what that has to do with Merrick Garland,” Crockett asked. “Do you know what we’re here for?” Oh, no, she didn’t. Things flew so far off the rails that it was left to Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican and anything but a shrinking violet, to “personally apologize to the American people for the disorder.”