A narrow procedural crowbar pried open the House of Representatives this week. The tool was a discharge petition—historically, very rarely successful—that helped force a 427–1 vote on the “Epstein Files Transparency Act,” and the Senate agreed to speed it to President Donald Trump, who so far has said he’d sign it .

But the “new” Epstein transparency process has an escape hatch built on Biden-era logic. The bill Trump has backed outlaws redactions for political embarrassment —but echoes the very clause Joe Biden’s Justice Department relied on to keep Epstein records sealed. If disclosure would “jeopardize an active Federal investigation,” Justice can temporarily, narrowly hold material back. On November 14, Trump said he’d ask DOJ to probe Epstein’s ties to various high-profile figure

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