Two US House of Representatives members have asked a federal judge to appoint a special master to compel the justice department to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.
On Thursday, Democratic representative Ro Khanna of California and Republican representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky asked US district judge Paul Engelmayer to release the full Epstein files, as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Criticizing the justice department for not releasing the full set of files on last year’s 19 December deadline, Khanna and Massie in a letter said: “The conduct by the DOJ is not only a flagrant violation of the mandatory disclosure obligations under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but as this Court has recognized in its previous rulings, the behavior by the DOJ has caused serious trauma to survivors.
“As the leads of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, we have urgent and grave concerns about DOJ’s failure to comply with the Act as well as the Department’s violations of this Court’s order,” the representatives said, adding: “Put simply, the DOJ cannot be trusted with making mandatory disclosures under the Act.”
What good is a law if even the government that passed it does not abide by it? Well, it’s good for absolutely nothing, except to create a false sense of legitimacy.
So once again, this clearly shows that the legal system in the USA is a farce that merely serves to simulate the rule of law, because if even the most serious violations of the law remain without consequences, there can be no rule of law.
This is then an unjust state in which nothing but arbitrariness reigns.
🎶 War, what is it good for? Absoluely nothing, say it again. 🎶
Edwin Starr