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Appeals court rejects Biden’s bid to block release of recordings with ghostwriter 17%
By The Associated Press66%
7/21/2026, 12:18:49 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Recency Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 37.9% saturation with 99 hits. Analysis detected 327 faulty-reasoning hits from 261 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 33.2% and a BS Rank of 17% (16,019 of 19,215 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 83.40% of the article peer group.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Joe Biden to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected president.
A divided three-judge panel from the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suspended its decision until Aug. 3 to allow more time for Biden to consider another appeal.
The panel’s 2-1 ruling late Monday found there is a “substantial” public interest in disclosing the material that Biden wants to keep under wraps.
Redactions to the recordings would help protect Biden’s privacy, the majority noted.
“We conclude that any remaining incursion on personal privacy from disclosure of the now-redacted materials likely does not outweigh the public interest in disclosure,” the court wrote.
Mark Zwonitzer, who worked with Biden on his two memoirs, interviewed the Democrat 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 vice president.
Republicans in Congress demanded the material after Hur declined to file charges against the then-president.
Biden sued and sought an injunction to prevent the Justice Department under President Donald Trump, a Republican, from releasing the recordings to Congress and the conservative Heritage Foundation.
The department previously argued that the recordings were exempt from disclosure under public records law.
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