Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“House Republicans tucked tail and left early after fearing the possibility of having to vote for transparency about the biggest underage sex ring in U.S. history, which gives you a good sense of where we are with that party right now. House Speaker Mike Johnson had six weeks to figure out how to manage the intra-party rebellion over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Republican members were still getting an earful at home, so ducking a vote wasn’t practical. But Johnson needed to uphold his prime directive of acting as a human shield for the president and keeping his name out of any revelations. So after weeks of rumination, here’s what Johnson came up with: a resolution, hastily added to the week’s floor voting schedule on Monday, that would ‘direct’ the House Oversight Committee to continue investigating the federal cases against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, which is already in progress.” (09/03/25)
https://prospect.org/justice/epstein-republican-congress-release-files/