{"id":2463710,"date":"2025-07-18T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-doj-asks-judges-to-unseal-epstein-and-maxwell-grand-jury-records\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:50:23","slug":"trump-doj-asks-judges-to-unseal-epstein-and-maxwell-grand-jury-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-doj-asks-judges-to-unseal-epstein-and-maxwell-grand-jury-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump DOJ asks judges to unseal Epstein and Maxwell grand jury records"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-doj-asks-judges-to-unseal-epstein-and-maxwell-grand-jury-records%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2463710&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Trump governance has requested federal judges to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >unseal grand jury transcripts related<\/a> to the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, aiming to promote clarity amid public demand and increased scrutiny of the Justice Department&#8217;s handling of these high-profile sex trafficking cases. The request, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, follows former President Donald Trump&#8217;s call on Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-asks-bondi-to-release-any-and-all-pertinent-epstein-grand-jury-testimony-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump asks Bondi to release \u2018any and all pertinent\u2019 Epstein ... testimony - Washington Examiner\">pertinent grand jury testimony<\/a>. The Department of Justice seeks to disclose the records with redactions to protect victim privacy, emphasizing the importance of transparency given the widespread public interest and allegations of a cover-up. While grand jury proceedings are usually secret, the DOJ cited legal precedents allowing exceptions for cases of important public or ancient interest. The motion covers not only Epstein&#8217;s 2019 indictment but also Maxwell&#8217;s 2020 indictment and conviction, with judges in both cases now tasked with deciding on the request.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump DOJ asks judges to unseal Epstein and Maxwell grand jury records<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2176865\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump administration<\/a> asked federal judges on Friday to unseal grand jury transcripts from the prosecutions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jeffrey-epstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ghislaine-maxwell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, citing public demand for transparency and renewed scrutiny of how the Justice Department handled the high-profile sex-trafficking cases.<\/p>\n<p>The requests, filed in the&nbsp;U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, follow President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> public request to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pam-bondi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Attorney General Pam Bondi<\/a>&nbsp;to &ldquo;produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval.&rdquo; Trump made his request Thursday night in a post to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/truth-social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Truth Social<\/a>&nbsp;amid rising pressure from his political base and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats<\/a>&nbsp;demanding full disclosure of what the government found in its yearslong investigation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3475709\/federal-judge-blocks-anti-catholic-washington-law\/\">Federal judge blocks anti-Catholic Washington law<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3475949\/obama-officials-spiked-intel-that-cleared-trump-in-2016-declassified-records-show\/\">Obama officials spiked intel that cleared Trump in 2016, declassified records show<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3475836\/at-least-three-dead-los-angeles-explosion-sheriff-training-center\/\">At least three dead in explosion at Los Angeles sheriff&#8217;s training center<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Audrey Strauss, former acting U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a news conference to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein on July 2, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo\/John Minchillo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nysd.518648\/gov.uscourts.nysd.518648.61.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">filing<\/a> in the Epstein case, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOJ<\/a>&nbsp;said it is seeking to release the grand jury records &ldquo;subject to appropriate redactions of victim-related and other personal identifying information,&rdquo; and pledged to work with the U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s Office in New York to safeguard privacy protections.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Transparency to the American public is of the utmost importance to this Administration,&rdquo; the motion states. &ldquo;Given the public interest in the investigative work conducted by the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation into Epstein, the Department of Justice moves the Court to unseal the underlying grand jury transcripts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The motions, signed by Deputy Attorney General&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/todd-blanche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Todd Blanche<\/a>, emphasize that the public&rsquo;s interest in the case &mdash; and suspicions of a cover-up &mdash; have only grown since the DOJ and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI<\/a>&nbsp;released a&nbsp;July 6 memorandum&nbsp;concluding that there was &ldquo;no credible evidence&rdquo; Epstein blackmailed powerful individuals or maintained an incriminating &ldquo;client list.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Still, the DOJ acknowledged that releasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pollak-in-contempt-votes-democrat-house-shows-it-is-beneath-contempt\/\" title=\"Pollak: In Contempt Votes, Democrat House Shows It Is Beneath Contempt\">grand jury materials<\/a> is rare. &ldquo;It is a tradition of law that proceedings before a grand jury shall generally remain secret,&rdquo; the filing says. However, it argues that secrecy rules are not absolute, noting courts have previously made exceptions for &ldquo;historical interest by the public.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Jeffrey Epstein is &lsquo;the most infamous pedophile in American history,&rsquo;&rdquo; the motion says, quoting a 2024 Florida court decision. &ldquo;The facts surrounding Epstein&rsquo;s case &lsquo;tell a tale of national disgrace.&rsquo; &hellip; The time for the public to guess what they contain should end.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ cited other rulings in which judges determined that grand jury secrecy could be lifted in the face of extraordinary public interest. &ldquo;It is &hellip; entirely conceivable that in some situations historical or public interest alone could justify the release of grand jury information,&rdquo; the department wrote, quoting from&nbsp;<em>In re Craig<\/em>, a leading Second Circuit precedent.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3473823\/what-government-still-wont-reveal-about-jeffrey-epstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">WHAT THE GOVERNMENT STILL WON&rsquo;T REVEAL ABOUT JEFFREY EPSTEIN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government seeks not only the release of grand jury materials from Epstein&rsquo;s 2019 indictment, but also from Maxwell&rsquo;s 2020 indictment and conviction. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2021 for her role in Epstein&rsquo;s trafficking ring.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Richard Berman, who presided over Epstein&rsquo;s federal case until his death by suicide in 2019, and Judge Allison J. Nathan, who handled Maxwell&rsquo;s criminal case, will now be tasked to determine whether to grant the Trump administration&rsquo;s request.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2176865\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2176865\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump DOJ urges unsealing Epstein and Maxwell grand jury records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2463711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ap21048117311581-1024x666.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7076,9006,55208,9004,3634],"class_list":["post-2463710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-doj","tag-epstein","tag-grand-jury","tag-maxwell","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ap21048117311581-1024x666.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463714,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463710\/revisions\/2463714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}