Biden’s bid to block release of recordings made with ghostwriter fails

Judge finds public interest outweighs privacy rights in request made by staffer at Heritage Foundation A federal judge on Friday rejected Joe Biden’s attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a conservative group the recordings that Biden made with a ghostwriter. The US district judge Dabney Friedrich found that the public interest in the material outweighed whatever privacy rights Biden had. Continue reading...

Associated Press · Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 1:32 PM
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Biden’s bid to block release of recordings made with ghostwriter fails

Judge finds public interest outweighs privacy rights in request made by staffer at Heritage Foundation

A federal judge on Friday rejected Joe Biden’s attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a conservative group the recordings that Biden made with a ghostwriter.

The US district judge Dabney Friedrich found that the public interest in the material outweighed whatever privacy rights Biden had.

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