The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, has filed an emergency motion in a Washington court seeking to accelerate the release of audio tapes of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur, over which the White House recently asserted executive privilege.
The emergency motion, filed on May 17 at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to modify the court's briefing schedule for three pending Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits that seek the audio recordings of roughly five hours of interviews President Biden had with the special counsel in relation to a classified documents mishandling probe.
The motion seeks to speed up the court battle over the release of the tapes, with the Heritage Foundation arguing in the filing that President Biden's assertion of executive privilege over the tapes on Thursday adds urgency to the FOIA lawsuits and that the Department of Justice (DOJ) didn't need as much time to prepare its response to the FOIA requests as it previously claimed.
The emergency motion, filed on May 17 at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to modify the court's briefing schedule for three pending Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits that seek the audio recordings of roughly five hours of interviews President Biden had with the special counsel in relation to a classified documents mishandling probe.
The motion seeks to speed up the court battle over the release of the tapes, with the Heritage Foundation arguing in the filing that President Biden's assertion of executive privilege over the tapes on Thursday adds urgency to the FOIA lawsuits and that the Department of Justice (DOJ) didn't need as much time to prepare its response to the FOIA requests as it previously claimed.