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Appeals Court Shoots Down Biden’s Bid To Hide Recordings Of Memoir Interviews

“We accordingly conclude that Biden has not shown a likelihood that the requested materials must be withheld from disclosure,” the majority wrote.

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A federal appellate court on Monday shot down Joe Biden’s bid to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of conversations he had with his memoir ghostwriter prior to becoming president.

In a 2-1 ruling, a panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Biden’s emergency motion for an injunction pending appeal to prevent the disclosure of the records and audio of his 2016-2017 discussions with his writing partner Mark Zwonitzer while preparing his 2017 book. The majority was comprised of Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan (Obama appointee) and Judge Gregory Katsas (Trump appointee), while Judge Florence Pan (Biden appointee) dissented.

“We accordingly conclude that Biden has not shown a likelihood that the requested materials must be withheld from disclosure,” the majority wrote.

As noted by Srinivasan and Katsas, the legal dispute over the contested materials can be traced to 2023, when then-Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Special Counsel Robert Hur to probe Biden’s handling of classified materials “during and after” his time as vice president. It was “under an agreement limiting their use to the Special Counsel’s investigation” that the Biden Justice Department acquired the audio recordings of Biden’s discussions with Zwonitzer and “prepared transcripts of the recorded conversations.”

As The Federalist previously reported, Hur concluded in his 2024 report “that no criminal charges are warranted” in his investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified materials despite his team finding records “related to foreign policy in Afghanistan and handwritten notes........

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