Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday said he will investigate why the FBI deemed the 2017 shooting that severely wounded Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) as “suicide by cop” rather than domestic terrorism, as Republicans have suggested. During a hearing about the Department of Justice’s fiscal year 2022 request, Garland told lawmakers: “I promise I will raise the issue with the FBI.” “This is clearly one of the cases where I think it needs to be reclassified because I think the evidence is very clear and many members of Congress could have lost their lives,” Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) said during the hearing with Garland, adding that it is a “very important issue” for both Republican and Democratic lawmakers. “He took defensive measures to shield himself from bullets and yet it was still suicide by cop,” Aderholt continued, referring to the lone gunman, James Hodgkinson, who was armed with an SKS-style rifle. The …