The order comes amid heightened scrutiny over the government's handling of investigative files related to Epstein.

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.

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
    2·
    30 minutes ago

    I mean, this was already what they had to do. This is just reiterating it. What’s needed is consequences

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    67·
    6 hours ago

    I’m so fucking sick of this. Exercise your authority. Enough with the kid gloves.

    Hold people in jail cells until they comply with the laws for which they are clearly not in compliance. That’s what would happen to you or me. Hold them in contempt.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 hours ago

    That “explain why you can’t” bit is what’s going to let them drag this out another year.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    Ruh-roh!

    I thought with all of Donvict’s stupid vanity projects and losing to Iran, we were just supposed to forget all about the pedo-protection program that Donvict’s DOJ is running?

    Whoops?

    • Widdershins@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I saw a news article about how they managed to read a scroll from Pompeii that is basically fossilized. They can fish paper out of a mar a lardo sewer pipe and wash off the digested mcdonald’s.