President Joe Biden has dropped a lawsuit seeking to block the release of recordings of his interviews with a ghostwriter. The recordings were obtained by special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden’s handling of classified documents from his time as a senator from Delaware and as Vice President under Barack Obama.
Background
The lawsuit was filed after a divided panel of appeals court judges rejected Biden’s bid to block the material’s release. The panel found a ‘substantial’ public interest in disclosing the material that Biden wanted to keep under wraps. Mark Zwonitzer, who worked with Biden on two memoirs, interviewed him at his home in 2016 and 2017. Biden’s lawyers say the conversations were candid, personal, and intended to remain private.
The recordings were obtained by special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden’s handling of classified documents from his time as a senator from Delaware and as Obama’s Vice President. Republicans in Congress demanded the material after Hur declined to file charges against the then-President.
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