On Friday, in a decision that's sure to bear some interesting fruit, a judge denied former President Biden's request to block the release of the tapes of his interviews with his ghostwriter.
A federal judge on Friday rejected former President Joe Biden’s request to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts from his conversations with biographer Mark Zwonitzer.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the former president’s motion for a preliminary injunction in the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Heritage Foundation and its employee, Mike Howell.
The materials come from former special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. The Justice Department will now turn over the redacted versions to the plaintiffs and House Judiciary Committee.
This is a case that's been litigated for some time, as we have covered right here on RedState:
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The order concludes in part:
In all, Biden is not likely to succeed on the merits of his cross-claims against the Department because he has not made a clear showing that the Department abused its discretion in “determin[ing] that President Biden’s reduced privacy interests are outweighed by the significant public interest in the disclosure of the redacted Zwonitzer Materials” and concluding that “FOIA Exemptions 6 and 7(C) do not apply[] and the redacted Zwonitizer [sic] Materials are required to be provided to the FOIA requesters.”
That would appear to be judicial-speak for "the public has a right to know."
There's some interesting speculation to be made here. What all is in those tapes that didn't make it into the book? What was Joe Biden's demeanor like? Listening to an interview isn't like reading a carefully edited book; every halting reply, every hiccup, every hesitation, every mental blank-out presumably is there and, if we are to judge by every public appearance Joe Biden has made in the last several years, painfully obvious.
And, if anything sensitive is redacted, there should be no security implications.
The order concludes:
For the foregoing reasons, the defendant-intervenor Joseph R. Biden, Jr.’s Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, Dkt. 65, is denied. A separate order consistent with this decision accompanies this memorandum opinion.
Interesting times.
You can read the judge's order here.
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