cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40387506

House Speaker Mike Johnson is conveniently sending Congress home the day before the Justice Department is supposed to release the Epstein files in full. The announcement came Wednesday night.

This looks like yet another instance of Johnson doing every little thing he can either to delay the release of the files or to make it so that his fellow GOPers don’t have to be in town to answer to their complicity in this monthslong campaign to avoid their release—as he did by egregiously delaying the swearing-in of Democratic Representative Adelita Grijalva for weeks.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    They don’t have to do this to block the release because the Epstein Files Transparency Act gives Trump and Bondi the authority on what to release.