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A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to release more files related to Jeffrey Epstein, concluding that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is violating the law Congress passed to make Epstein documents public.<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled<\/u><\/span> that Katie Phang, a lawyer and political commentator, has the right to sue Blanche in federal court in Washington, D.C., and is harmed by Blanche\u2019s refusal to follow the law and turn over documents such as logs that weren\u2019t made public.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere, the current high level of interest in the Epstein Files combined with the upcoming mid-term elections amounts to a circumstance that itself constitutes irreparable harm, especially where the Attorney General has not disputed that he is in violation of the Epstein Act,\u201d Sullivan, a Clinton appointee, wrote.<\/p>\n

On her show on the left-leaning MeidasTouch Network, Phang said she acted in her right as a private citizen to get more of the Epstein files released, stating that Blanche needs to either \u201cput up or shut up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe either has to bring forth unredacted files or show cause as to why he should not or cannot do so,\u201d Phang said<\/u><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Sullivan ordered that the DOJ \u201cproduce to the public\u201d a series of files related to the case against the convicted sex offender by July 2. The agency was initially required to respond to his court by 1 p.m. Thursday \u2014 which it did not.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBy not responding substantively, the Attorney General has conceded Ms. Phang\u2019s merits arguments in the pending motion,\u201d the judge wrote.<\/p>\n

The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NOTUS.<\/p>\n

The agency was legally required to release the files by Dec. 19 under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but missed this deadline.<\/p>\n

An initial, heavily redacted batch of hundreds of thousands of documents was published in December, and millions more<\/u><\/span> came in January. In March, a follow-up batch was published, along with roughly 50,000 previously removed files that were restored following review.<\/p>\n

\u201cResponding to public demands for information, Congress with near unanimity passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act,\u201d Sullivan wrote in the opening line of his order, adding that the act is an \u201cunprecedented disclosure law\u201d that requires \u201cextremely timely compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche didn\u2019t respond to a court order, prompting the judge to call him out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump-white-house"],"yoast_head":"\nDOJ Must Release More Epstein Files by July 2, Judge Rules - Modern Home Journals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=699\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DOJ Must Release More Epstein Files by July 2, Judge Rules - Modern Home Journals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche didn\u2019t respond to a court order, prompting the judge to call him out.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=699\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Modern Home Journals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-26T04:17:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/533de239efc09a2ab59959cc1bff86d0\"},\"headline\":\"DOJ Must Release More Epstein Files by July 2, Judge Rules\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-26T04:17:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699\"},\"wordCount\":418,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/2796e7a21eecdf96ce159d565de977b6-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Trump White House\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699\",\"name\":\"DOJ Must Release More Epstein Files by July 2, Judge Rules - Modern Home Journals\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/2796e7a21eecdf96ce159d565de977b6-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-26T04:17:43+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/533de239efc09a2ab59959cc1bff86d0\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=699#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/2796e7a21eecdf96ce159d565de977b6-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/2796e7a21eecdf96ce159d565de977b6-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707,\"caption\":\"United States acting Attorney General Todd Blanche during a press conference on healthcare and medicaid fraud in the Department of Justice building in Washington D.C., on Tuesday June 23, 2026. 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