Helen Huiskes and Margaret Manto at NOTUS:
A federal judge in New York declined a request from the Department of Justice to unseal grand jury transcripts for the Jeffrey Epstein case Wednesday, the third time in recent weeks that a judge has rejected such a request from the Trump administration.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote that given the grand jury materials “do not contribute anything to public knowledge,” the public might conclude that “the Government’s motion for their unsealing was aimed not at ‘transparency’ but at diversion — aimed not at full disclosure but at the illusion of such.”
Another federal court calls out Government request to release grand jury transcripts as a "diversion."
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) August 20, 2025
"The Government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials."
True solution: DOJ can release the Epstein files pic.twitter.com/B0zFXBHMHT
