Thomas Massey

Redacting information very much trumps some deadline in the statute.

Our law trumps the prior law.

That's just common sense.

Law School 101.

Yet Todd Blanch is using a different theory that wouldn't survive first contact with any court.

In 2030, he's not going to be the president, and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release these files, and the president can't protect you.

Republican Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky helped gather the 218 signatures needed to force the vote.

On ABC News, Massey cautions his fellow Republicans that this ballot record will live on beyond President Trump.

Republican Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky helped gather the 218 signatures needed to force the vote.

On ABC News, Massey cautions his fellow Republicans that this ballot record will live on beyond President Trump.

But Massey says new Trump administration investigations may be an effort to bar the release of the Epstein documents indefinitely.

Even if the House advances the Epstein-File bill, it faces difficult odds in the Senate and the White House.

Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.