Overview
- Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department will post several hundred thousand documents today, with additional batches expected in the coming weeks following victim‑privacy reviews.
- House Oversight Democrats released 68 more images from a roughly 95,000‑photo cache, including pictures of well‑known figures, redacted foreign passports, excerpts from Lolita written on a woman’s body, and a text about recruiting “girls,” while making no accusations of wrongdoing.
- The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the Justice Department to publish unclassified materials in searchable, downloadable form and bars withholding for embarrassment or political sensitivity.
- The law permits redactions to protect victims and exclude child sexual‑abuse material, medical information, classified content or details that could jeopardize active investigations, with explanations of any withholdings to be provided to Congress.
- Senior Democrats Robert Garcia and Jamie Raskin warned they are weighing legal options if the department’s release falls short, as separate court orders have authorized limited unsealing of grand jury materials that judges cautioned may reveal little about additional perpetrators.