The judicial branch is violating a decree of the legislative branch in order to cover up the crimes of the executive branch's leader... who is ultimately responsible for enforcement of the legislative branch's decrees.
Wild. As a Canadian, I'd snap us off from the continent and start paddling North if it were possible.
salawat•1mo ago
DoJ, despite the name, is not part of the judiciary of the United States. It's firmly in the Executive branch. The U.S. Judiciary is quite literally only the Courts and their staff. Anyone with a badge, or arrest powers above the Average Joe is under the umbrella of the Executive.
This is part of why a hijacked Executive Branch is in it's own way a nigh irrecoverable Constitutional crisis short of a coup from inside the Executive, or a unified and oppositional Congress. There are precious few external-to-the-executive enforcers in other branches capable of actually holding a misbehaving Executive to account. If the President does it, it isn't illegal while he's in office.
In theory, one of the few that exist that I'm aware of is the Sergeant-at-Arms in the Legislature who can order detainment of those in contempt of Congress. This represents a political, not a traditional judicial detainment, but actually requires a Legislature willing to exercise it's ability to impeach among other things. Also, it may be the case they have to refer external to D.C. arrests through DoJ I think.
The judiciary, is firmly gated in it's enforcement power to the willingness of the executive to execute.
> Latest Epstein files release ‘grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and letter of the law’, says congressman
> Thomas Massey, Kentucky Republican and Ro Khanna, California Democrat, who co-wrote Epstein Transparency Act say releasing heavily redacted files on rolling basis does not comply with law
jacquesm•1mo ago
In this case though, the coverup is likely not even worse than the crime.
lawn•1mo ago
Hey, you found the file with Trump.
No wonder they spent millions redacting everything.
maCDzP•1mo ago
I wonder if there are any traces of the text inte file. Seems like a fun forensics exercise.
toomuchtodo•1mo ago
It appears so.
legitster•1mo ago
Searching "the" returned no results. Just a broken feature.
dboreham•1mo ago
Although there's a search box, a few test queries suggests that most (all?) of the material is scanned paper documents that haven't been OCR'ed and therefore the search function is useless.
matheusmoreira•1mo ago
Quite a few Brazil mentions... I wonder if brazilian politicians are involved in this.
java-man•1mo ago
toomuchtodo•1mo ago
US justice department will not release all Epstein files by Friday deadline, official says - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9plrkl8no | https://archive.today/htvaI - December 19th, 2025
beloch•1mo ago
Wild. As a Canadian, I'd snap us off from the continent and start paddling North if it were possible.
salawat•1mo ago
This is part of why a hijacked Executive Branch is in it's own way a nigh irrecoverable Constitutional crisis short of a coup from inside the Executive, or a unified and oppositional Congress. There are precious few external-to-the-executive enforcers in other branches capable of actually holding a misbehaving Executive to account. If the President does it, it isn't illegal while he's in office.
In theory, one of the few that exist that I'm aware of is the Sergeant-at-Arms in the Legislature who can order detainment of those in contempt of Congress. This represents a political, not a traditional judicial detainment, but actually requires a Legislature willing to exercise it's ability to impeach among other things. Also, it may be the case they have to refer external to D.C. arrests through DoJ I think.
The judiciary, is firmly gated in it's enforcement power to the willingness of the executive to execute.
timeon•1mo ago
toomuchtodo•1mo ago
> Latest Epstein files release ‘grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and letter of the law’, says congressman
> Thomas Massey, Kentucky Republican and Ro Khanna, California Democrat, who co-wrote Epstein Transparency Act say releasing heavily redacted files on rolling basis does not comply with law
jacquesm•1mo ago
lawn•1mo ago
No wonder they spent millions redacting everything.
maCDzP•1mo ago
toomuchtodo•1mo ago
legitster•1mo ago