LTE: The Epstein files

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law passed by the 119th US Congress and signed by Donald Trump on November 19, 2025. It requires the US Attorney General “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format” all the “Epstein Files pertaining to the prosecution of the deceased child sex offender Jeffery Epstein within 30 days of passage, and then to give the Judiciary Committees in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate an unredacted “list of all government officials and politically exposed persons” named in the files. On December 19, the U.S. Department of Justice released a very small batch of Epstein files, violating U.S. law in failing to release all the files by that day. We are STILL WAITING!!!
Now what? Congress passed the statute requiring release of documents, then the Department of Justice has the legal duty to comply. The President has supervisory responsibility over DOJ and Congress has oversight and enforcement authority. This isn’t only about Mr. Epstein, it’s about whether: Laws bind the powerful the same way they bind ordinary citizens and if transparency is real or selective and if our institutions protect reputations instead of enforcing accountability (How else do we protect the victims).
So, contact your members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate who have oversight authority over the Department of Justice and ask specifically whether they are enforcing compliance with the law and request public hearings or updates on the Epstein files. We the people need to demand oversight pressure on our elected officials, thus our democracy continues. Get to work people, our democracy depends on it. No one is above the Law.
Joan Reading
Union Dale PA