(The Center Square) — Republican Rep. Clay Higgins of Lafayette, the only House lawmaker who voted against releasing documents associated with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday, said the legislation will hurt people who are named in the documents but did nothing wrong.

“It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people — witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc,” Higgins wrote on X after the vote.

The bipartisan bill passed the House with a 427 to 1 vote and received unanimous agreement from the Senate.

President Trump, who had tried to head off the House vote until bowing to pressure from his own party, has indicated he will sign the legislation.

Higgins, a Trump loya

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