The House GOP’s vote to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress was a politically motivated sham, assistant Democratic leader Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Wednesday evening. The contempt referral, which is expected to go nowhere because the Justice Department itself has the final say on whether to bring charges, stems from the GOP’s demands for raw footage of President Joe Biden’s interview with former special counsel Robert Hur in the classified documents case — a demand that Neguse slammed as completely frivolous. “The scandal machine has basically…