Jeffrey Epstein files: House speaker announces vote next week on release of docs
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The Trump administration has been criticized for failing to release files about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of President Trump.

  • A petition in the House of Representatives to force a vote to release the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files secured the last signature required to trigger that action.

  • Rep. Adelita Grilalva, D-Ariz., provided the 218th signature needed to approve the petition shortly after she was sworn in as a House member, after weeks of delay.

  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
    51·
    1 day ago

    That article sucks. 90% is filled with crap we’ve already heard a thousand times.

    What are the next steps? Does it need to pass the Senate? Can trump veto? Are the files released today at midnight? What happens next?

    Glad the vote is in, but how are they gonna block the release now.

    • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
      53·
      1 day ago

      Next it goes to the senate. Which will need 60 votes. We know that’s not happening.

      If it does pass the Senate, it goes to Trump’s desk. That’s a veto 100%.

      Oversight committees can delay and block subpoenas to get the files.

      DOJ can refuse to comply.

      These are the main factors. So will we get the files? Probably not. But it’ll put Republicans on the spot for them.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        15·
        1 day ago

        Assuming the bill gets passed in the House, it would still require approval by the Senate and to be signed into law by President Donald Trump. Senate GOP leaders have not guaranteed they would hold a vote in their chamber.

        But Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), the co-sponsor of the bill with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), told reporters Wednesday he believed “40 to 50" Republicans would join Democrats in supporting the bill in the House.

        “If we get that kind of overwhelming vote, that’s going to push the Senate, and it’s going to push for a release of the files from the Justice Department,” Khanna said.

        Trump officials are still waging an intense pressure campaign to get at least one of three House Republican women to remove their name from the discharge effort, according to two people granted anonymity to share private conversations. If that push is successful, it would complicate efforts to get the measure on the floor in the first place, as Republicans are more likely to vote in favor of the legislation itself than they are to sign onto a discharge petition seen as an outwardly antagonistic gesture toward leadership.

        • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 day ago

          There’s so many moving parts and so much corruption within the system. I don’t have high hopes for this, but I hope our rapist-in-chief gets what’s coming to him.

      • MimicJar@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 day ago

        Next it goes to the senate. Which will need 60 votes. We know that’s not happening.

        Procedurally and realistically you’re correct. However technically the “nuclear option” exists to reduce that to a simple majority. There is a 0% chance that will happen, since it didn’t happen to end the 40+ day shutdown, no one is going to use it here.

        Plus even if you did, Trump would veto it and it would all be for nothing, as you said.

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
        71·
        1 day ago

        Remember, releasing the files is extremely popular with Republican voters, to the point where anyone who votes no is going to look like they’re basically in bed with the evil deep state pedophile cabal hiding under the pizza parlor.

        That means for them to kill it in the House, a whole bunch of GOP reps have to face a firestorm from their constituents.

        If it does in the Senate, it’s because they let that firestorm spread to every GOP senator too.

        And if it makes it to Trump, and he’s forced to veto it? That might just be the final nail in his presidency. His polularity is already tanking. This could kill it completely.

      • Batman@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 day ago

        Certainly agree on the veto. But I feel like this is a perfect chance to split the opposition. Not going to pretend how that political ammunition would best be used, but it seems endless.