DOJ Can Provide Biden’s Conversations With Ghostwriter to Heritage Foundation, Judge Says

Former President Joe Biden speaks in Chicago on April 15, 2025. Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo

A federal judge on Friday rejected former President Joe Biden’s bid to prevent the conservative Heritage Foundation from receiving redacted transcripts and recordings of conversations he had with a ghostwriter for his 2017 memoir.

Although District Judge Dabney Friedrich delayed her own decision by three weeks later on Friday to allow for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on the matter, she said her order will remain in place because of the recording and transcripts’ significant public interest.