“The Oversight Committee moved to subpoena the Attorney General. My subpoena stands. I am not backing down. Not even a little bit.” FIN.
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Lisa Rubin
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Lisa Rubin
@lawofruby
@MSNOWnews senior legal reporter & recovering litigator; former: off-air legal analyst @maddow, @wagnertonight. Don’t let the pearls fool ya.
New York, NY Se unió Ocak 2017
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Rep. Nancy Mace to @mychaelschnell: “Pam Bondi's briefing does not end the Epstein investigation. It doesn't even slow it down. The American people deserve a full accounting of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal network, the rich and powerful who used it, and the institutions that protected them.” 1/
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NEW: Epstein lawyer Darren Indyke will testify before House Oversight today. And based on what witnesses, including Epstein victims, told the FBI about their interactions with him, there are ongoing, pressing questions about what Indyke knew and when.
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NEW: DOJ’s Epstein library has 20 new documents as of last Thursday night. And yet, it is still missing documents reflecting interviews with women who made accusations both against Epstein and high-profile Epstein associates.
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"Regardless of PlaintiffAppellees position, this Court has not yet granted the motion to dismiss, and it is the prerogative of Defendant-Appellants to pursue this appeal. In addition, there is no prejudice to Plaintiff-Appellees in the Court granting this motion."
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And now DOJ has filed their anticipated "motion to withdraw motion to voluntarily dismiss [the] appeals." In a single paragraph, Deputy Associate Attorney General Abhishek Kambli -- who also signed yesterday's motion -- attempts to explain DOJ's abrupt about-face, writing: 2/
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As first reported by @nytmike and @DevlinBarrett, DOJ has now informed the four law firms that successfully fought Trump's executive orders -- Susman Godfrey, Jenner & Block, Wilmer Hale, and Perkins Coie -- that it will not abandon its appeal after all. DOJ's brief's due 3/6.
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What’s more, all the documents that DOJ *did* release from the Trump accuser are literally also *from the Maxwell discovery*
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Oh the Maxwell docs that—as I reported—DOJ told Judge Englemayer in a court statement are actually duplicates of separate records predating the Maxwell matter and aren’t subject to the Maxwell protective order, but DOJ is choosing to treat them that way because <no reason given>
DOJ Rapid Response@DOJRR47
As the Department of Justice has consistently said and has done since the January 30, 2026 publication of the Epstein files, if any member of the public, including victims, reported concerns with information in the pages, the Department would review, make any corrections, and republish online. Several individuals and news outlets have recently flagged files related to documents produced to Ghislaine Maxwell in discovery of her criminal case that they claim appear to be missing. As with all documents that have been flagged by the public, the Department is currently reviewing files within that category of the production. Should any document be found to have been improperly tagged in the review process and is responsive to the Act, the Department will of course publish it, consistent with the law.
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And here's that Jan. 4 memo from Deputy AG Todd Blanche to the DOJ lawyers doing the "first-level" review of the Epstein files prior to their production: justice.gov/media/1426281/…
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1
BREAKING MS NOW: @lawofruby reports DOJ directed reviewers to flag FBI interview memos before it produced the latest Epstein files. That follows MS NOW reporting that DOJ appears to have withheld memos on three interviews with a woman who accused Epstein and Trump of assault.
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Yesterday’s big news with @mychaelschnell: Missing Epstein files include interviews with alleged Trump accuser ms.now/news/epstein-f…
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BREAKING MS NOW:
@lawofruby reports DOJ directed reviewers to flag FBI interview memos before it produced the latest Epstein files.
That follows MS NOW reporting that DOJ appears to have withheld memos on three interviews with a woman who accused Epstein and Trump of assault.
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Chief Justice John Roberts: “The President asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope. In light of the breadth, history, and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it.”
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Gorsuch on the importance of Congress and the legislative process.
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How the FBI & DOJ handle allegations of sexual abuse and trafficking — and whether that process has meaningfully changed since she first tried to report Epstein’s crimes in 1996 — is the crux of Epstein survivor Maria Farmer’s current lawsuit.
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Molly Jong-Fast@MollyJongFast
I am so deeply angry at all the administrations that failed Epstein‘s survivors. This should be the beginning of a larger conversation about how the FBI handles allegations of sexual assault, rape and sex trafficking. We need accountability and a thorough autopsy of everything that went wrong. We need public hearings
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I am so deeply angry at all the administrations that failed Epstein‘s survivors. This should be the beginning of a larger conversation about how the FBI handles allegations of sexual assault, rape and sex trafficking. We need accountability and a thorough autopsy of everything that went wrong.
We need public hearings
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The point @JasonLeopold is making is that even when deliberative process is a permissible ground for withholding it is a) overused, and b) still permissible, not mandatory, and is totally up to the producing agency/others with equities.
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Important context from a journalist who has become an absolute FOIA master.
Jason Leopold@JasonLeopold
In comparison, under the FOIA, the deliberative process exemption, B5, is one of the most abused exemptions agencies invoke to withhold records from requesters. Still, it's a discretionary exemption that can be waived in favor of disclosure.
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All told, the letter likely will do little to quell Congress’s anger toward DOJ or convince the survivors their voices matter at Main Justice. And it seems like the ball’s in Congress’s court. FIN.
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And then there is DOJ’s insistence — repeatedly contradicted by Epstein survivors — that DOJ is “steadfast in its commitment to protecting victims” and that its redaction review is ongoing. 6/
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NEW: DOJ sent Congress a six-page “report,” as required by Section 3 of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. But DOJ’s list of “government officials” and “politically exposed persons” included in the produced materials is, like the redactions themselves, too much and not enough. 1/
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