Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Monday that he will force the Senate to vote on suing the Department of Justice for the full release of files relating to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Schumer’s announcement came three days after the DOJ missed last week’s deadline to release all of the documents required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law in November.
All documents were required by the law to be released on Friday with minimal redactions. Only a fraction of the total files relating to Epstein have been released so far.
“Instead of transparency, the Trump administration released a tiny fraction of the files and blacked out massive portions of what little they provided,” Schumer said in a statement. “Republicans should again show that same support for upholding the bipartisan law we passed and demand the Trump administration release all the Epstein files.”
Schumer’s resolution would force Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to “initiate or intervene in one or more civil actions in the name of the Senate in a Federal Court of competent jurisdiction” to compel the release of the Epstein files.
