Democrats Want the Attorney General Under Oath on Epstein. If a Subpoena Fight Ever Reaches Criminal Contempt, His Own Department Would Decide Whether to Prosecute.
Democrats take control of the House, and its committees, in January. Rep. Robert Garcia, expected to lead Oversight, says the Justice Department is withholding more than 2.5 million pages of Epstein records. Here is who Democrats say they want to hear from, what a subpoena can force, and what can still stall it.
Todd Blanche, then deputy attorney general, at a memorial service at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, in September 2025. He is now attorney general, and Rep. Robert Garcia says he wants him to testify about the Epstein files. Photo: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized from the original; not cropped.
A wish list is not a subpoena, and a subpoena is not a file. How to tell the three apart when the new Congress starts in January.
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