Appeals court rejects Biden’s bid to block release of recordings of ghostwriter interviews
The panel said redactions can protect privacy, but it found a substantial public interest in seeing material used by Special Counsel Robert Hur.
- On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 against former President Joe Biden, rejecting his bid to block the Justice Department from releasing audio recordings and transcripts of his biographer interviews.
- The Heritage Foundation filed a public records request following Special Counsel Robert Hur's 2024 report, which cited recordings showing Biden's "diminished faculties and faulty memory" during his handling of classified documents.
- Biden's lawyers argued the discussions were intended to be private, likening them to diary entries, while the Justice Department maintained the conversations "were never intended to be shared with a wider audience."
- Despite the 2-1 ruling, the court suspended its decision until August 3 to allow Biden time for further appeals, noting a "substantial" public interest in disclosing the material.
- D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan and Judge Gregory Katsas formed the majority, while Judge Florence Pan dissented from the opinion, reflecting judicial divisions on privacy versus public disclosure.
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The former U.S. president's request to prevent the publication of audio recordings related to the writing of his briefs was denied.
Biden’s ghostwriter interviews closer to release after appeals court setback
In a 2-1 decision issued on late Monday, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the material could be released, although it temporarily suspended its ruling until August 3 to give Biden time to seek further legal review.
Biden fought to keep these recordings under wraps. An appeals court just made that a lot harder. · American Wire News
Former President Joe Biden was just handed a crushing defeat at the hands of an appeals court in Washington, D.C. Biden has been trying to prevent the release of audio recordings shared with a writer that were used for his 2017 memoir “Promise Me, Dad.” Since the publication of special counsel Robert Hur’s report that categorized the former president as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” who had “diminished faculties i…
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