Schumer moves to force Senate to take legal action against DOJ, Trump admin over Epstein doc dump
Senate Democrats are mounting a legal offensive against the Trump administration for its handling of the release of files and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck...
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Senate Democrats are mounting a legal offensive against the Trump administration for its handling of the release of files and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., has teed up the first salvo. Schumer on Monday announced that he would file a resolution that would compel the Senate to take legal action against the Trump administration for "illegally refusing to release the complete Epstein files and heavily redacting the files that are released." "The law Congress passed is crystal clear: release the Epstein files in full, so Americans can see the truth," Schumer said in a statement. "Instead, the Trump Department of Justice dumped redactions and withheld the evidence — that breaks the law. Today, I am introducing a resolution to force the Senate to take legal action and compel this administration to comply." SCHUMER ACCUSES TRUMP ADMIN OF EPSTEIN FILES 'COVER-UP' AMID DOCUMENT DISPUTE Schumer's move comes just days after the Department of Justice (DOJ) dumped several hundred thousand documents and photos from its trove of materials related to the late Epstein . Schumer and Senate Democrats warned ahead of the document dump on Friday that unless the DOJ fully complied with the recently passed law, they would seek legal action. They argue that Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ didn’t follow the law, which Congress passed nearly unanimously out of both chambers last month. Schumer, who forced a successful vote in the Senate on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, previously argued that the "heavily redacted documents released by the Department of Justice today is just a fraction of the whole body of evidence." "Simply releasing a mountain of blacked-out pages violates the spirit of transparency and the letter of the law," Schumer said in a statement. "For example, all 119 pages of one document were completely blacked out. We need answers as to why." The law required that the DOJ release all unclassified records re…