Jeffrey Epstein continues to haunt American politics from beyond the grave. The financial manager and convicted pedophile died in 2019 while awaiting his second trial for sex trafficking. Yet a steady drip of revelations about Epstein's political ties has left the public with a feeling that there's more to the story. On Tuesday night, the House of Representatives passed a bill to release all of the Department of Justice files on the Epstein case, which the Senate agreed to pass by unanimous consent.
The libertarian-leaning Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) reached across the aisle with Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) to push for the disclosure. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R–La.) had tried to preempt their bill by having the House Oversight Committee launch its own investigation into the Epstein case. But a trove of Epstein's emails and text messages released by the investigators last week, some of which mention President Donald Trump, only gave Massie and Khanna's campaign new life.
