DOJ Will Not Release, Unredact More Epstein Files Despite Judges Order
The DOJ's response came in the final hours of a court-ordered deadline to remove redactions in at least a dozen documents or "show cause" why it could not.
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... Those documents included "at least eight email exchanges with Mr. Epstein regarding a torture video' and sexual activity with young women, including minors" and interviews with a woman who claims she was abused by President Trump as a minor. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, through his attorneys, told District Judge Emmet Sullivan that his department has "devoted incredible time and resources" to reviewing more than 6 million documents in connection with the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). "As will become apparent, it would contravene the settled application of the EFTA for the Department to produce unredacted versions of many of the records at issue, and nothing requires that result," Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward wrote. ...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, through his attorneys, told District Judge Emmet Sullivan that his department has "devoted incredible time and resources" to reviewing more than 6 million documents in connection with the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA).
"As will become apparent, it would contravene the settled application of the EFTA for the Department to produce unredacted versions of many of the records at issue, and nothing requires that result," Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward wrote. ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-03 02:30 PM | Reply
The cover-up continues?
#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-03 02:31 PM | Reply
Indubitably.
#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-03 02:36 PM | Reply
This is the Donald of John DOJ.
Corrupt, incompetent, and pathetic.
#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-03 03:59 PM | Reply
They will once maga loses both houses of congress and the presidency. Of course Orange Adolf if he's still alive and his rotten crotch fruit will have fled the US by then.
#5 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-07-03 05:04 PM | Reply
#6 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-07-03 05:05 PM | Reply
So the Department of "Justice" is refusing to comply with the law ...
Trump's America and rule of law, never shall they meet.
#7 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-03 08:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
@#7 ... So the Department of "Justice" is refusing to comply with the law ...
Ironic, isn't it?
Though not really surprising since pres Trump seems to have turned the DoJ into his personal legal team, working to benefit Pres Trump's needs and not the needs of the People of the United States.
#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-03 10:20 PM | Reply
Decades of two party knowledge, complicity, and criminality.
#9 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-07-04 09:39 AM | Reply
Doe 174 is a serial------------.
#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-07-04 09:44 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
I am eagerly awaiting Trump's testimony before a congressional committee on Jan 26 '29, since Republicans have made it clear that there is no problem subpoenaing a former president to testify about Epstein.
#11 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2026-07-04 06:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
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