Overview

• Democracy Forward filed a suit in Washington federal court to compel the Justice Department and FBI to release records from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation after the agencies ignored FOIA requests submitted in late July.
• The lawsuit targets communications among senior Justice Department and FBI officials, including briefing materials prepared for Attorney General Pam Bondi’s meeting with President Trump in May.
• It also seeks any correspondence between Jeffrey Epstein and President Trump and recent exchanges involving Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who last month interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell.
• A federal judge in Florida denied a bid to unseal grand jury transcripts from 2005 to 2007, and a similar request is still pending in New York.
• Separately, the House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas demanding unredacted Justice Department files as part of its congressional probe.