A federal judge suggested that government lawyers could be held in contempt after he repeatedly pressed the Department of Justice to explain redactions in a tranche of challenged documents from investigations into Jeffrey Epstein.
In June, Washington, D.C. District Judge Emmet Sullivan sided with journalist Katie Phang after she filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Todd Blanche accusing Donald Trump’s administration of violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which the president signed into law last year, by failing to release all of the files in its possession or adequately explain why they were withheld.
