Delaware's highest court has blocked a request by conservative groups seeking to access President Joe Biden's Senate papers at a state university.
The July 6 ruling by the Delaware Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that sided with the University of Delaware in denying a request from Judicial Watch and another group seeking access to the records, which Biden gifted to the public university in 2012.
The university rejected the request, arguing that Biden's Senate papers aren't considered public records because they don't involve the expenditure of state money by the university.
A state Superior Court judge sided with the university, rejecting the records request, but the groups appealed to the Supreme Court, which agreed to take up the case.
The lawyers said the university had "Failed to prove that no public funds are utilized" for the upkeep of the Biden Senate papers and argued that the failure to release public documents of "National significance" will have a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of the press.
The university says Biden donated the documents on the condition they not be released until they have been "Properly processed and archived."
The documents include 1,850 boxes of archival records and 415 gigabytes of electronic records from Biden's long U.S. Senate career, from 1973 through 2009, according to court filings.
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