Former President Joe Biden’s lawsuit against the Justice Department has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who rose to national prominence for overseeing several cases connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Biden sued the DOJ on Tuesday in an effort to block the release of private conversations and audio recordings tied to special counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents investigation.
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Hur examined Biden’s handling of classified documents and reviewed interviews the former president conducted with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer while working on his 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose. The conversations, recorded between 2016 and 2017 at Biden’s home, were part of the book-writing process.
“These were private conversations, often involving sensitive subject matter, that took place in President Biden’s home,” the complaint states.
The lawsuit follows a February notification from the DOJ informing Biden that it planned to release the recordings and transcripts to
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