A federal decide in Florida on Wednesday declined the Justice Division’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts from a probe into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“The Courtroom’s arms are tied — a degree that the federal government concedes,” wrote U.S. District Choose Robin Rosenberg.
The choice thwarts Trump’s efforts to tamp down criticism from his political base for now however doesn’t have an effect on the administration’s different pending requests to launch grand jury transcripts tied to later federal investigations of Epstein and his confederate, Ghislane Maxwell, in New York.
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