House Subcommittee Votes to Subpoena Justice Department for Epstein Files Amid Renewed Push for Transparency

WASHINGTON – A House subcommittee has voted 8-2 to subpoena the Department of Justice for all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation. The move follows a successful push by Democrats to secure bipartisan support, even amidst reported efforts by Republican leadership and former President Donald Trump to downplay the issue.

The vote underscores an intensifying demand for disclosures in the Epstein case. Concurrently, the House Committee on Oversight issued a separate subpoena for Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s convicted accomplice, to testify before the committee in August.

Despite Republican resistance, including a vote against the motion by subcommittee chairman Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), three Republicans joined Democrats to pass the subpoena. While work to draft the subpoena is underway, no timeline for its issuance has been provided.

Democrats have hailed the action as a significant step towards transparency, pushing back against what they describe as efforts to obstruct the release of information. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the top Democrat on the oversight committee, questioned why the files have not been fully released, implying potential concealment.

The subpoena push comes six years after Epstein’s death in a New York jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Democrats have leveraged the issue to highlight transparency concerns and to create divisions within the Republican party, particularly concerning accountability for powerful individuals. Meanwhile, a federal judge in Florida recently rejected a request from the Justice Department to release secret grand jury testimony in the Epstein case, though a similar request remains pending in New York.

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