Federal Judge Tells Massie, Khanna To Pound Sand On Expediting Epstein Files Release

By Daily Caller Staff

A federal judge on Wednesday shut down a bipartisan bid by two House members to force the Justice Department to speed up the release of Jeffrey Epstein-related records, ruling the court lacks authority to police the Justice Department’s compliance inside Ghislaine Maxwell’s “effectively closed” criminal case.

Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna asked U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer to let them weigh in as “friends of the court” and appoint a special master or monitor to oversee the DOJ’s public release of records under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed in November.

“Put simply, the DOJ cannot be trusted with making mandatory disclosures under the Act,” the lawmakers wrote in a Jan. 8 letter urging Engelmayer to install an independent watchdog…

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