Three Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday to reject a motion to censure the Democratic nonvoting delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Stacey Plaskett, over her exchange of text messages with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing.

Why It Matters

The defeat of the Republican effort to punish Plaskett came shortly after most members of both the House and Senate voted to force the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release more files on its case against Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in August 2019 at age 66 in a New York City jail cell.

Revelations that Epstein messaged Plaskett during Michael Cohen’s 2019 House Oversight Committee testimony, unearthed in newly released documents from Epstein’s estate, shed new light on the sex offender's potential

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