A judge in Florida has rejected the request of the Trump administration to ignore the gorgeous jury tape from the investigation by the humiliated financer Jeffrey Epstein.
Judge Robin Rosenberg found that the request – was done last week by the Department of Justice – would violate the state law. “The court is tied,” the judge ruled.
In 2006, Florida’s investigation in Epstein accused the tape to accuse him of a minor for prostitution in the question stem.
President Donald Trump had directed Attorney General Palm Bandy to demand the release of all the grand jury evidence after continuous pressure from some of some of his most loyal supporters.
On Friday, in his 12-page order, Judge Rosenberg ruled that tapes could not be issued due to guidelines that control the grand jury secreized by the Federal Appeal Court which oversees Florida.
The judge said that the government argues that files should be issued due to “broad public interest” and “transparency to the American public”, not meeting the requirements for documents under “special circumstances”.
The judge ruled that a new case should be opened so that the lawyers could make additional legal arguments for the fact why the tape, which was before the federal case, caused Epstein to die in the jail while waiting for the allegations in 2019.
A grand jury is a group of citizens established by an prosecutor to determine whether the allegations are sufficient evidence to be filed. In legal terms, it determines whether the possible reason is that a crime believes that a crime has been committed.
The ruling Trump comes in the form of administration, who wants to meet a convict sex-trial Gisline Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year jail sentence to help young girls misuse of Epstein.
While campaigning last year, Trump – who was once a friend of Epstein – promised to release files related to humiliated financiers.
But Bandy said earlier this month that the US justice department did not believe that Epstein had a so-called “customer list” that could implicate high-profile colleagues, and he took his life-despite conspiracies on his death.
Bondi said he was designed to announce the major revelations about the case, including “a lot of names” and “a lot of flight logs” – who traveled with a financier or who visited their private islands, where many of his alleged crimes were said.
Reversely, he inspired a furious response from Trump’s score of the most enthusiastic supporters who have called Bandy to resign after failing to produce the list, which the authorities claimed to be in his possession earlier.
Democrats have captured Republican Infighting to accuse the Trump administration of lying about their commitment to transparency.
On Wednesday, House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson shut down the Congress for a summer break a day earlier, which stopped legislative efforts to force the release of documents related to Epstein.
This step delays a politically frightening vote on the matter by September. It followed the vote of a major committee to force Epstein’s long -time associate, Maxwell to testify to the Congress.
