Republicans move to block Democratic effort to force release of Epstein files
by Edward Helmore from US news | The Guardian on (#6YNF0)
White House has come under fire for not releasing documents related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
Republican lawmakers have moved to block a Democratic effort to force the release of the so-called Epstein files, a near-mythological trove of undisclosed information about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein at the center of an internal political war among US conservatives.
Democrats had been pressing for an amendment to cryptocurrency legislation that would have forced the release of information and exhibits itemized in a list of evidence held by the justice department from the 2019 child sex-trafficking case against disgraced financier Epstein.
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