U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to the media, aft the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a stroke to the powerfulness of national judges by restricting their quality to assistance wide ineligible alleviation successful cases arsenic the justices acted successful a ineligible combat implicit President Donald Trump's bid to bounds birthright citizenship, successful the Press Briefing Room astatine the White House successful Washington D.C., June 27, 2025.
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The Department of Justice connected Friday asked national judges to unseal grand assemblage transcripts successful the transgression cases of notorious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted procurer of young girls, Ghislaine Maxwell.
The ceremonial requests came 1 time aft President Donald Trump said helium asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to "produce immoderate and each pertinent Grand Jury testimony, taxable to Court approval."
Trump suggested helium was taking that measurement successful bid to tamp down connected the increasing unit from his ain supporters to merchandise the alleged Epstein files. "This SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats, should end, close now!" helium wrote successful a Truth Social station astatine the time.
Less than 2 weeks earlier, the Justice Department said successful a memo that it would not disclose immoderate much accusation related to Epstein's national enactment trafficking lawsuit aft conducting an "exhaustive review."
But since then, "there has been extended nationalist involvement successful the ground for the Memorandum's conclusions," Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote successful abstracted tribunal filings successful the Epstein and Maxwell cases successful Manhattan national court.
"While the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation proceed to adhere to the conclusions reached successful the Memorandum, transparency to the American nationalist is of the utmost value to this Administration," Blanche wrote.
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"Given the nationalist involvement successful the investigative enactment conducted by the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation into Epstein, the Department of Justice moves the Court to unseal the underlying expansive assemblage transcripts," taxable to due redactions, helium wrote.
Those redactions encompass "victim-related and different idiosyncratic identifying information," Blanche wrote.
A footnote successful the identical documents says that a akin petition volition beryllium filed successful national tribunal successful confederate Florida. Epstein pleaded blameworthy successful 2008 successful Florida to soliciting an underage prostitute.
Epstein was arrested successful 2019 and killed himself successful situation weeks later. Maxwell, his longtime confidant, was convicted successful 2021 of acting arsenic a recruiter of young girls who would aboriginal beryllium abused by Epstein. She is presently serving a 20-year condemnation successful a national situation successful Florida.
Earlier Friday afternoon, Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against media elephantine Rupert Murdoch and aggregate Wall Street Journal journalists, hours aft they reported that a postulation of day missive to Epstein successful 2003 included a "bawdy" connection signed by Trump.
The president has denied penning the message.
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