Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks alongside President Donald Trump on recent Supreme Court rulings in the briefing room at the White House on June 27, 2025. (Getty Images)
The "mass volume of material" could "take a few more weeks" to review, the DOJ said.
"The Department will continue to fully comply with federal law and President Trump’s direction to release the files," the department wrote.
The DOJ has been sharing on a public website since Friday tens of thousands of pages of files related to Epstein’s and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking cases as part of its obligation under the transparency bill.
Todd Blanche, then-deputy attorney general nominee, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 12. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on "Meet the Press" Sunday there was "well-settled law" that supported the DOJ missing the bill's deadline because of a need to meet other legal requirements, like redacting victim-identifying information.
The transparency bill required the DOJ to withhold information about victims and material that could jeopardize open investigations or litigation. Officials could also leave out information "in the interest of national defense or foreign policy," the bill said.
The bill also explicitly directed the DOJ to keep visible any details that could be damaging to high-profile and politically connected people.
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