Did you hear about the guy who went to a fight and a congressional hearing broke out?

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.

At least Congress has not devolved to the level of the near-fatal caning in 1856 of Sen. Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts, by Rep. Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina.

But, in terms of sheer heat, the House Oversight Committee appeared to come close in Thursday’s meeting to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt. The charge: refusing to comply with a subpoena to hand over an audio recording of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur late last year.

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........

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