Republicans Block Epstein Financial Records Subpoena (October 2025)
www.kbklawyers.com

... Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian expose how House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan killed subpoenas for Jeffrey Epstein's financial records from four major banks just as Congress was poised to investigate $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions. ...

OpEd: Why Biden didn't release the Epstein files -- but maybe should have (February 2026)
thehill.com

... In December, former Vice President Kamala Harris told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel why the Biden Administration had not released the so-called Epstein files during the four years that President Joe Biden was in office.

"We strongly and rightly believed that there should be an absolute separation between what we wanted as an administration and what the Department of Justice did," she said. "We absolutely adhered to that."

Just a month earlier, Harris had criticized President Trump for waiting for Congress to act. "Release the files," she said. "He is the president of the United States, the head of the executive branch."

So which is it? Did Biden have the authority to release the files or not? Should he have wielded it or not? The answer is a bit of both.

What Harris is suggesting is that Biden left that decision to his Attorney General, Merrick Garland. Garland viewed it as his role to defend the Justice Department's independence vigorously from political influence. ...