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Biden vs DOJ: Ex-president fights to keep memoir recordings secret

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Former US President Joe Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden pose for a selfie photo, in this handout social media picture released May 19, 2025. 

Photo credit: Joe Biden via X/ Reuters

Former Democratic US President Joe Biden sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, seeking to bar the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with ​his biographer in 2016 and 2017.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington DC, comes ahead of the department’s planned June 15 release of the materials to the US House Judiciary Committee and the conservative Heritage Foundation.