Former President Joe Biden is heading back to court in an effort to keep sensitive interview recordings out of public hands.
Biden sued the Justice Department on Tuesday to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts that were reviewed during Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s handling of classified materials.
The recordings stem from interviews Biden conducted with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer in 2017 while working on his memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.
Those interviews became a focal point of Hur’s classified documents probe because investigators found references to materials that Biden retained after leaving office as vice president.
Hur’s investigation ultimately produced a lengthy report detailing Biden’s retention of documents containing information related to military and foreign policy matters, including Afghanistan, as well as notebooks containing handwritten entries touching on national security issues.
The report became one of the most politically explosive documents of Biden’s presidency, fueling questions about both his handling of sensitive materials and his memory.
Now Biden’s legal team is trying to prevent the underlying recordings and transcripts from being released.
According to court filings, Biden’s attorneys argue that disclosure would amount to “an unwarranted invasion of President Biden’s privacy.”
“Every American, including a sitting or former Vice President, has a right to privacy in the personal conversations he has within his own home,” his lawyers wrote.
The lawsuit seeks to block the release of the materials to conservative groups and Republican requesters, including the Heritage Foundation.
The legal challenge opens a new front in the long-running battle over records tied to the classified documents investigation, which ended without criminal charges against Biden but generated intense political fallout.
President Donald Trump quickly weighed in after reports of the lawsuit surfaced.
“A Crooked Politician!!!” Trump wrote on TRUTH Social.
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