Federal judge grants justice department request to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury documents – US politics live

Richard M Berman cites passage of Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires the DoJ to release all Epstein records by 19 December Representative Ro Khanna , a California Democrat who was co-sponsor of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, told CNN today that the federal judge’s order to unseal grand jury records from the 2019 federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein shows that “American democracy still is working”. “You’ve now had three judges who, in the past, had said you could not release either grand jury testimony or protective orders now ruling that they have to be in compliance with Congress,” Khanna said. “And these files are going to come out, and it does give me hope that we’re going to see broad transparency.” Continue reading...