Jamie Raskin

Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin is the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

He tells CNN he can't launch a suit against the DOJ.

But House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells ABC News the DOJ is required by law to explain themselves.

The Justice Department has defended its partial release of the Epstein files and the removal of around a dozen files, including at least one that features President Trump's photo.

Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.

Well, it's obviously an outrage.

It's a scandal.

And it does feel like a major lurch into further lawlessness in the country because it was Donald Trump's own handpicked U.S.

attorney, Mr. Siebert, who was originally charged with investigating James Comey and came back with the conclusion that there was not remotely enough evidence to prosecute for any offense.

So under a system of a rule of law, that would have been the end of the story.

But instead, President Trump decided that there wasn't a problem with his case.

There was a problem with the prosecutor and decided to sack this Republican U.S.

attorney who demonstrated complete fidelity to the rule of law.

Then he replaces him with a handpicked sycophant underling

who never had had a day working as a prosecutor, who gets into office and, what do you know, dusts off the exact indictment that had been rejected by the U.S.

attorney and decides to indict James Comey for it.

So, the good news is, I think there's very little chance he could ever be convicted, because it's so clearly a case of vindictive and selective prosecution.

where all of the norms of the rule of law have been suspended, and the president didn't care about the facts, and the president didn't care about the law.

He just cared about his emotions, and it was a vengeance campaign.

So I think either the judge will have to throw it out, or a jury, hearing it, will see it and simply cannot find that there is remotely enough evidence to convict.