Former President Joe Biden is in an uphill battle to try to stop the Justice Department from sharing recordings it collected of him speaking to his ghostwriter in 2016 and 2017, during which his speech and memory faltered.

Biden and ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer made 70 hours of audio recordings for his memoir Promise Me Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose.

A judge ruled on Friday that the public interest in the material outweighed any privacy rights Biden held