President Donald Trump’s administration faced another setback in its efforts to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Jeffrey Epstein. A federal judge in Florida rejected the government’s request to release Epstein-related transcripts from investigations in the state on Wednesday.
The ruling comes just one day after federal judges in New York told the Justice Department that their motions to unseal grand jury transcripts about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were not good enough. The New York judges gave the DOJ a week to try again, allowing Maxwell, an Epstein representative, and victims to share their views by August 5.
