*UPDATE 5:32 PM
The Senate unanimously passed the bill to release the Epstein files.
The House passed the bill only a few hours before the Senate vote.
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The House voted 427 to 1 to force the DOJ to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) voted no. He wrote on X:
I have been a principled “NO” on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people – witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote. The Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation that has already released well over 60,000 pages of documents from the Epstein case. That effort will continue in a manner that provides all due protections for innocent Americans. If the Senate amends the bill to properly address privacy of victims and other Americans, who are named but not criminally implicated, then I will vote for that bill when it comes back to the House.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has been at the forefront of the fight to release the Epstein files, followed by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA).
President Donald Trump has fought tooth and nail to deflect the attention away from the files. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson followed his lead.
But more and more Republicans came out to support Massie’s measure.
I guess Trump saw the light at the end of the tunnel because he told Republicans to vote for the bill, insisting, “we have nothing to hide.”
Massie’s bill heads to the Senate. I bet it will pass since Trump said he would sign it when it lands on his desk.
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