Overview
- In a Friday court filing, the Justice Department said Biden intends to ask a judge to stop disclosure, with a Tuesday deadline that would trigger a pause on any release until June 15 if he files on time.
- The department says it plans to provide redacted transcripts and recordings to the House Judiciary Committee chair and to the Heritage Foundation, which requested them under the public records law.
- Heritage says it will fight Biden’s intervention and argues his lawyers waited too long to try to block access.
- The recordings capture Biden’s 2017 conversations with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer for his book Promise Me, Dad, which Special Counsel Robert Hur obtained during his classified-documents inquiry.
- Hur declined to bring charges but wrote that Biden read sensitive notes nearly verbatim and showed memory lapses, sharpening a dispute that pits privacy claims against demands for transparency and congressional oversight.