The Department of Justice will not act on House Republicans’ referral to criminally charge Attorney General Merrick Garland. According to The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell, DOJ “won’t prosecute Garland for contempt of Congress, saying refusal to provide Biden audio wasn’t a crime.” The criminal referral, passed earlier this week along a mostly party-line vote, stems from GOP-led House committees’ demand for DOJ to hand over the raw video footage of special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden in the investigation over classified documents found in his personal effects — a matter wh…