Ben Mycelis

So when people ask me, well, why would they turn that over?

Well, because they're probably hiding much worse documents.

And if you go back and you read some of the court filings that the Trump DOJ made, they've told federal judges that they are withholding documents on the basis of privilege claims.

And a privilege in a lawsuit is a claim that a litigant can assert for not producing documents.

Ultimately, a federal judge makes a ruling if a privilege claim is valid or not valid.

But here, the Trump regime is banking on the fact that since there's no active case per se and that the Epstein Transparency Act doesn't have a written private cause of action that says here's who has standing to sue, that a federal judge can't intervene

and make a ruling that a privileged claim is invalid.

You'll recall when Ro Khanna and Thomas Massey, the Congress members behind the Epstein Transparency Act, filed in federal court in the active federal cases or inactive in the sense that Epstein is dead and Ghislaine Maxwell is convicted of child sex trafficking.

But there has been a lot of activity in those cases.

in the kind of post-trial motions.

But when Massey and Khanna said, we need an independent monitor and a special master, remember the Trump DOJ swooped in and said, no special master.

These Congress members don't have standing.

It's a case between the DOJ and Ghislaine Maxwell, and we don't want a special master.

So judge, you don't have any authority to appoint an independent monitor or special master.

And you don't have any ability to intervene in this judge.

And remember what the judges said.

Unfortunately, I guess that's right.

I don't have the ability even if we want to.

But boy, were Massey and Khanna right, right?

They were prescient in making that request.