Overview

• The Justice Department filed motions to unseal grand jury transcripts in the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, an uncommon step that may undercut its own secrecy claims
• The Second Circuit upheld most seals in Virginia Giuffre Roberts’s defamation suit but ordered a case-by-case review of sealed filings, potentially unlocking more documents
• Radar Online and journalist James Robertson’s FOIA appeal is advancing toward the Second Circuit in a bid to force release of more than 10,000 of the 11,571 FBI pages still withheld
• Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s immunity-protected interviews with Maxwell in Florida and her transfer to a minimum-security camp in Texas have heightened speculation that President Trump may grant her clemency
• A new UMass Amherst poll shows 70% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the Epstein files and 63% believe his administration is withholding critical information