{"id":23506,"date":"2025-12-16T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=23506"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:19:01","slug":"merkley-lujan-no-business-as-usual-until-justice-delivered-for-jeffrey-epsteins-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-lujan-no-business-as-usual-until-justice-delivered-for-jeffrey-epsteins-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley, Luj\u00e1n: No Business as Usual Until Justice Delivered for Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Oregon\u2019s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and New Mexico\u2019s U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n\u2014the lead Senate sponsors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-murkowski-lujan-massie-khanna-demand-doj-briefing-on-release-of-the-epstein-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Epstein Files Transparency Act<\/em><\/a>\u2014announced they would block any pending civilian nominations before the Senate from being carried over to the new session of Congress in response to the Trump Administration\u2019s failure to provide a briefing to lawmakers on the release of the Epstein Files. Merkley and Luj\u00e1n issued this statement announcing their hold:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThere can be no business as usual until justice is delivered for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s horrific crimes. The Trump Administration\u2019s lack of transparency about its plans to release the Epstein Files signals it is gearing up to disregard the law we led the fight in the Senate to pass, which overwhelmingly passed both chambers of Congress. Without full transparency and accountability, there can be no \u2018equal justice under the law.\u2019 Until the administration reverses course and provides a common-sense briefing, which lawmakers from both parties requested, we are blocking the Senate from carrying over any outstanding civilian nominations into next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-murkowski-lujan-massie-khanna-demand-doj-briefing-on-release-of-the-epstein-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Merkley teamed up with Luj\u00e1n and a bipartisan group of lawmakers<\/a> to demand a briefing from Attorney General Pam Bondi on the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s efforts to comply with the <em>Epstein Files Transparency Act<\/em> and fully release the Epstein Files by December 19, 2025\u2014as required by the law Merkley and Luj\u00e1n championed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Oregon\u2019s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and New Mexico\u2019s U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n\u2014the lead Senate sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act\u2014announced they would block any pending civilian nominations before the Senate from being carried over to the new session of Congress in response to the Trump Administration\u2019s failure to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":18846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-23506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-civil-rights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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