Judge puts a pause on the Biden tapes drop

A federal judge initially gave the green light for the Department of Justice to cough up the transcripts and audio of Joe Biden talking to his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer. The Heritage Foundation has been dying to get their hands on these, hoping to dig up more dirt on how classified documents were handled.

But just when it looked like the files were heading out the door, the judge pulled a U-turn. She admitted the public has an interest in seeing this stuff, but she gave the lawyers a three-week cushion to file an appeal first. The tapes are staying locked in the vault for now.

It is wild that we have reached a point where a president’s casual book-prep sessions are the hottest property in the legal world. The government spent months investigating the handling of sensitive records, ultimately deciding not to press charges, but now the legal drama has morphed into a fight over whether the public gets to hear the raw, unedited chats.

Turns out, even in the era of total transparency, there is always a layer of litigation sitting on top of the truth.

Source: ABC News