former president Joe Biden He sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, May 26, seeking to block the release of recordings and transcripts of private conversations he had with his biographer in 2016 and 2017, Reuters reported. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.
The lawsuit was filed days before the department plans to release materials to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and the conservative Heritage Foundation on June 15.
Biden’s lawyers noted in the filing that the recordings and transcripts contain “private, sensitive conversations that Biden had with his writing partner, Mark Zwonitzer, at the former president’s home in 2016 and 2017.” The Justice Department obtained the materials in 2023 after the special counsel investigation was launched.
The filing adds that Biden “cooperated fully with the investigation, and the special counsel ultimately concluded that criminal charges were not warranted.” The lawyers also said that when the Justice Department possesses private information in connection with a criminal investigation, “the department has a special responsibility to protect it from disclosure.”
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