{"id":1123,"date":"2026-07-22T09:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:40:45","slug":"appeals-court-rejects-biden-effort-to-hide-ghostwriter-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Rejects Biden Effort to Hide Ghostwriter Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former President Joe Biden lost a bid late Monday to keep secret hours of candid recordings he made with a ghostwriter years before he became president, after a federal appeals court ruled the public has a right to hear them.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1121\">Morning Greatness: Trump to Attend Dignified Transfer of Fallen Soldiers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 that there is a \u201csubstantial\u201d public interest in releasing the material, the Associated Press reported. The judges stayed their own ruling until Aug. 3, giving Biden time to weigh a further appeal.<\/p>\n<p>At issue are some 70 hours of recordings and transcripts from interviews Biden gave in 2016 and 2017 to Mark Zwonitzer, who helped him write his memoirs. The sessions took place at Biden\u2019s home. His lawyers have insisted the conversations were private and personal, never meant to see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court majority was not persuaded, concluding that redactions would adequately protect Biden\u2019s privacy while still letting the public see material central to the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe conclude that any remaining incursion on personal privacy from disclosure of the now-redacted materials likely does not outweigh the public interest in disclosure,\u201d the majority wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1119\">Trump Admin Freezes More Than $1 Billion in Medicaid Funds Over Fraud Concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ruling affirms a June decision by U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, who found the public interest in the recordings outweighed whatever privacy claim Biden could assert.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s fight to bury the tapes comes just as he prepares to profit from his own version of the same period. Little, Brown and Company confirmed to the AP that Biden\u2019s memoir, \u201cPromise Me America,\u201d will be published November 17, two weeks after the midterm elections, in which Democrats are trying to retake Congress, Breitbart News reported. Biden reportedly received a $10 million advance for the book.<\/p>\n<p>Biden now has until Aug. 3 to decide whether to seek review from the full appeals court or the Supreme Court before the recordings are made public.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1118\">Washington Can\u2019t Afford to Let the US Lose the Open-Source AI War<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Joe Biden lost a bid late Monday to keep secret hours of candid recordings he made with a ghostwriter years before he became president\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Appeals Court Rejects Biden Effort to Hide Ghostwriter Recordings - 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