The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday filed a motion in federal court in New York seeking to unseal grand-jury testimony in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, a move signaling that the Donald Trump administration is responding again in earnest to Congress’s demand for transparency in the long-running sex-trafficking investigation.
In a filing signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Justice Department asked the court to “authorize the Department of Justice to release the grand-jury transcripts and lift any preexisting protective orders that would otherwise prevent public disclosure.”
Three previous requests from the DOJ were denied: The first by a judge on or before August 11, 2025; the second in a separate case and also on or before that date; and the third on August 20, 2025, by a New York federal judge, who called the motion a “diversion” and said the DOJ should disclose the Epstein files.
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