A federal judge in Florida has rejected a Trump administration request to release grand jury transcripts from the Jeffrey Epstein case.
U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg said she could not authorize the release.
“Eleventh Circuit [federal appeals court] law does not permit this Court to grant the Government’s request; the Court’s hands are tied—a point the Government concedes,” she wrote in a 12-page opinion, Fox News reported.
The Trump administration had pushed for the transcripts to be unsealed from Florida grand jury proceedings tied to the original federal investigation into Epstein.
The effort was part of a broader call for transparency around Epstein’s sex trafficking network. The grand juries in question were held in 2005 and 2007.
