Barely two days after House Republicans passed a criminal referral of Attorney General Merrick Garland to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress, the DOJ signaled it would be rejecting their demand for criminal prosecution. The contempt referral was based on DOJ’s refusal to hand over the raw footage of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur in the classified documents investigation — even though the GOP already had the complete transcript of that interview. The Biden administration considered this demand a pretext to hunt for embarrassing footage to clip out …