Two members of Congress say they will recommend that United States Attorney General Pam Bondi be held in contempt of Congress after the Justice Department failed to meet a legally required deadline to release the full set of Epstein files.
A contempt resolution would need approval from the House of Representatives.
A federal order issued last month required the Department of Justice to publish all unclassified documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by midnight Friday, local time. On the day of the deadline, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the department would not comply in time, citing the need to redact sensitive information belonging to roughly 1,200 survivors across hundreds of thousands of pages.
Since then, the department has released thousands of photos, court filings, grand jury exhibits, phone message logs and other materials on its website. However, survivors and lawmakers have continued to criticize the department for withholding the full collection.
The two congressmen behind the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie, said they are now preparing documents to declare Bondi in contempt for failing to meet the legal deadline.
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