The US Court of Appeals has just dealt Joe Biden a big loss in his lawsuit to keep audio recordings and transcripts obtained by Special Counsel Robert Hur a secret. In short, they ruled that public disclosure outweighed his need for privacy. The judges in this case were an Obama and Trump appointee, who agreed with a lower court decision to make the material public. Biden appealed after U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled in June that the public interest in the material outweighed whatever privacy rights Biden had. Srinivasan was nominated by President Barack Obama, a Democrat who chose Biden as his vice president.