Republicans warn Bondi not to bury Epstein files after law’s passage

By Joseph Gedeon in Washington · The Guardian World

Senate majority leader, John Thune, and others push the attorney general to release Epstein records within 30 days US politics live – latest updates Within hours of Donald Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Ac t into law, Republican senators were on the ground to issue a pointed message to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi: don’t bury these documents. The bill’s passage marked a rare moment of bipartisan support in an otherwise ideologically fractured Congress as it now sets a 30-day deadline for the release of Department of Justice files related to the actions of convicted sex offender of minors and financier Jeffrey Epstein , dubbed by a judge “the most infamous pedophile in American history”. Continue reading...