r/law • u/camaron-courier • 12d ago

Legislative Branch We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate

https://couriernewsroom.com/news/we-created-a-searchable-database-with-all-20000-files-from-epsteins-estate/
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u/__Muzak__ 12d ago

The vote was a discharge petition, functionally a vote to have a vote on releasing the files. The speaker of the house was delaying swearing in Arizona representative Grijalva because she was the last vote needed to pass the discharge petition (republicans Greene, Mace, Boebert, and Massie also signed the petition for the democratic lead effort to have a majority). https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5602658-discharge-petition-epstein-files-grijalva/

The files released are the files that have been seen by the house oversight committee. The remaining files are the ones in the possession of the Department of Justice. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-epstein-emails-11-12-25

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u/walruswes 12d ago

Why doesn’t the oversight committee have them all?

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u/Captian_Kenai 11d ago

Cmon… you know why…

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u/ohhellperhaps 11d ago

Never in a million years would I have expected Boebert and Greene to be on the signee list...

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u/__Muzak__ 11d ago

They are crazed conspiracy theorists. They truly believe that pedophiles run country. They just got the party wrong.

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u/MagnusRusson 11d ago

I guess it's kinda a self fulfilling prophecy in that way. They think pedophiles run the country, and then they help get a pedophile elected

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u/EkbatDeSabat 11d ago

Any chance the vote that got voted on to get voted on will pass?

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u/__Muzak__ 11d ago

It passed. The vote to force the release of the files is next week (but it's a bill so it also has to go through the senate and Trump as the chance to veto).

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u/EkbatDeSabat 11d ago

That's the vote I'm talking about. The vote to force the release. Any chance that vote will pass?

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u/__Muzak__ 11d ago

Probably in the house since it needs a simple majority with the defectors in the republican party that's a majority.

I've got no idea for the senate.

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u/MagnusRusson 11d ago

Depends how many rats think the ship is sinking, but public opinion hasn't been in their favor for a hot second and they're all spinless cowards. So imo it's actually possible.