Who is Clay Higgins, the only House member to vote against Epstein files release?

(The Hill) – Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) on Tuesday was the only House member to vote against a bill that will order the Justice Department to release files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Higgins, a conservative lawmaker with a background in law enforcement, said he’s been a “principled ‘NO’” on the Epstein Files Transparency Act “from the beginning.”

“As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people — witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc,” he wrote Tuesday in a statement on social platform X.

“If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt," the Louisiana Republican added. "Not by my vote."

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