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 then-special counsel Robert Hur in the course of his investigation into whether Biden improperly retained classified documents when he served as a senator and vice president. Republicans in Congress demanded them after Hur declined to file charges against the then-president.