The U.S. Justice Department renewed its request Monday to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking cases, arguing they should be made public under a new law requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his longtime confidante.
U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton cited the Epstein Files Transparency Act — passed by Congress last week and signed into law by President Donald Trump — in court filings asking Manhattan federal judges Richard Berman and Paul A. Engelmayer to reconsider their prior decisions to keep the material sealed.
The Justice Department interprets the transparency act “as requiring it to publish the grand jury and discovery materials in this case,” said the eight-page filings, which also bear the names of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and her second-in-command, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
reminder that Trump could have unilaterally ordered this at any time
Not this (grand jury files) in particular, but the files that the grand jury had access to came from DoJ and can be released by his administration. Though the new bill may convince the judges to allow them to be released. I still think it’ll be a “look what we did” without DoJ actually revealing anything they couldn’t have revealed on their own.
“Well we can’t release just some of the files, we have to wait for this new bureaucratic hurdle to be cleared.”
More stalling.
Thats exactly what it is. The grand jury proceedings are just the government presenting the evidence they’ve already gathered to a jury. There shouldn’t be anything contained within the grand jury proceedings that isn’t already contained within the pool of investigation documents that Bondi and Patel are refusing to release, but this way they can stall while blaming the state government for the delay.
That, and mix up the two when they’re released.
The “ongoing investigations” ordered by Trump will prevent the full set from being released and he can claim he “really tried to have the files released”
…while actively preventing it
The ruling should be “unseal those and unseal everything else as required by the act at the same time”.
What kind of sealant are they using!?
Redacttape
Idk but I hope they seal the pennies before they are all gone.
They’re deleting everything they don’t like. Until the guillotines come out nothing will change. Democrats could have easily had him in prison we saw the sedition on tv.
Not easily, but the deliberate nature of the cases allowed the clock to be run out with a major assist from SCOTUS.
They were sitting on a mountain of evidence he raped and trafficked children. They should have at least tried to add judges to the court or impeach Thomas for accepting bribes.
I hate to say this but I’m not even sure I could trust whatever gets released. Those scumbags had unchecked access to the files for too long.
So do it.
