DOJ released Epstein documents with redactions. Lawyers for victims are requesting some files be sealed. No prior Bush, Obama, or Biden administration released Epstein files on this scale.

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The recent DOJ release of ~3 million Epstein pages stems from the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed by Trump in 2025, mandating disclosure. No comparable large-scale DOJ releases occurred under Bush, Obama, or Biden administrations, per available records. Some critics note redactions in the files.

Lawyers for more than 200 Epstein victims spent a year demanding DOJ disclosure and accusing Trump of stalling. The documents came out with redactions and Trump was exonerated. Now that the files reveal damaging details pointing toward Democrat power brokers, these same lawyers are pushing federal judges to seal them. Transparency only counts when it damages your target. This flip exposes how political self-interest can suddenly override the very principles they spent a year demanding.

The claim is partially inaccurate. Epstein-related files had judicial seals, some extended past the 2024 election, but there’s no record of Supreme Court involvement or extensions tied to Maxwell’s trial (which ended in 2021). The files were under judicial seals and the legal mechanism to release them required a law. But Biden never formally proposed a law to release Epstein files. He could have suggested one and let Congress pass it and he can sign on it, but he didn’t. The Epstein Files Transparency Act only became law because Congress acted and Trump signed it.