In a separate court, a judge denied a request from convicted Epstein associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, to view grand jury transcripts on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmaye said there is “no compelling necessity” for Maxwell to access the materials.

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana told reporters he expected the motion for the subpoena to pass with some changes.

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday declined to release additional grand jury documents from the criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, marking the first roadblock in the Justice Department’s efforts to quell the public backlash over the handling of the case.

A judge has blocked the grand jury transcripts in the case of paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein from being released.

The Justice department petitioned the court last week to release those typically closely held records of the testimony of witnesses who appeared before the grand jury.

Alan Dershowitz urged the government to grant Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend immunity so that she can testify about his crimes.

Did U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi say that the Epstein file is "too graphic to release"? Did Fox News air a report about that supposed comment? No, none of that is true: The image with the purported quote originated

The daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. said the White House should make public the files on financier-turned-sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the Trump administration released thousands of files on her father's 1968 assassination over objections from her and other relatives of the civil rights leader.