Judge Rejects Biden Attempt To Block Release Of Ghostwriter Recordings
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Joe Biden just lost in court.
A district court judge rejected an attempt by Joe Biden to block the Trump administration from releasing recordings Biden made with his ghostwriter.
The special counsel investigating Joe Biden obtained the recordings.
A federal judge on Friday rejected former President Joe Biden’s attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a conservative group the recordings that Biden made with a ghostwriter.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich found that the public interest in the material outweighed whatever privacy rights Biden had.
The recordings were obtained by special counsel Robert Hur in the course of his investigation into whether Biden improperly retained classified documents while a senator and vice president. Republicans in Congress demanded them after Hur declined to file charges against the then-president.
Biden’s Democratic administration refused to turn over the 2017 recordings and transcripts, leading congressional Republicans to hold his attorney general, Merrick Garland, in contempt.
The judge said the case involves an “unusually strong public interest.”
The material, she said, does not mention sensitive topics like illness or death, nor any private people, including members of Biden’s family. Friedrich said the case involves an “unusually strong public interest” in the release of the conversations.
“In short, this case presents a confluence of significant public disclosures of prosecutorial decision-making, explicit reliance on particular records, and the statements of a high-profile public figure to support the Department’s decision,” she wrote.
