Judge denies Biden's bid to block release of transcripts linked to special counsel inquiry
The ruling clears the way for redacted audio and transcripts to be released after the judge found public interest outweighs Biden’s privacy claims.
- On Friday, District Judge Dabney Friedrich denied President Joe Biden's bid to block The Justice Department from releasing 70 hours of audio recordings related to his classified documents investigation.
- The Heritage Foundation requested the 70 hours of audio, captured during interviews with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer for Biden's 2017 memoir, as part of special counsel Robert Hur's investigation into classified documents handling.
- Biden's legal team argued releasing the tapes constitutes an "unwarranted invasion of privacy," but Friedrich wrote the edited materials "contain no mention of highly sensitive topics like illness or death," ruling public interest outweighs privacy claims.
- Seeking to delay the release, Biden's attorneys asked Friedrich to stay her order while they file an expedited appeal with the Circuit Court of Appeals as The DOJ has not provided a transmission timeline.
- These recordings became significant after Hur's 2024 report characterized Biden as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," prompting Republicans to demand the audio to evaluate his cognitive state and recollection of events.
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The battle for transparency of government archives in Washington added a new procedural chapter. Columbia District Judge Dabney Friedrich temporarily blocked the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday to prevent the immediate release of edited transcripts and recordings of dialogues that former President Joe Biden held a decade ago with his biographer and ghost writer Mark Zwonitzer. The court order freezes the release of the files for a period o…
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A federal judge in Washington denied former President Joe Biden’s request to block the Justice Department from turning over tapes and transcripts of interviews he privately recorded almost a decade ago to a conservative advocacy group, but will temporarily bar…
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