A federal judge has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to either unredact and release more records related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein or provide a detailed explanation for why the redactions remain necessary.
The order comes amid heightened scrutiny over the U.S. government’s handling of millions of pages of investigative files related to the disgraced financier who was found dead in a New York City jail cell in 2019 while awaiting his sex-trafficking trial.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order issued Thursday directs acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to justify the department’s continued withholding of portions of the records after lawmakers and victims’ advocates questioned whether some redactions exceed what is legally permitted.
Too much money and power is on line for the ruling class, be it republicans or democrats, to ever release all the files, whatever the law says (law isn’t a thing for those with money and power in US). And the ruling class know that The People will never oppose in a meaningful way, a way that will shift the load of command over to the people. No one outside of the ruling class will ever see the full, unredacted trump/epstein files.