Schumer threatens to continue the Trump administration on the deadline for Epstein files

The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., threatens to continue the Trump administration if they do not disclose Epstein files.

At the end of last month, Schumer and all the Democrats of the Senate in the Senate Committee for Internal Security and Government Affairs invoked an arcanic and almost centenary law to force the Trump administration to disclose information on Jeffrey Epstein.

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The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., turned to an assistant at a press conference in Capitol in Washington on June 3, 2025. (APO photo / J. Scott Applewhite)

This decision occurred while Epstein’s drama had already paralyzed the room and the Democrats of the upper room began to increase their message against President Donald Trump for his management of the problem.

And Friday was the deadline for the Ministry of Justice and the White House to comply, and so far, the documents have not been given to Schumer and the Senate Democrats.

“They are now breaking the law to hide the files,” said Schumer on X. “(leader of the majority of the Senate John Thune) must appoint a lawyer to defend the Senate before the court and obtain the files. “”

“If he chooses the complicity-we will take them short.”

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Pam Bondi, Attorney General of the United States, during an oath in the Oval Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 6, 2025. (Francis Chung / Politico / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The Ministry of Justice refused to comment on the issue. Fox News Digital contacted the White House and Thune office to comment.

However, an assistant from the senior GOP noted to Fox News Digital that he is not entirely up to the Republican of the southern Dakota to appoint a legal advisor to represent the Senate. Instead, it belongs to the Senate Joint Leadership Group, which includes Thune, Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa and the pro-Tempore president of the Senate, Schumer, and the chairs and members of the Senate’s judicial power and, in this case, the internal security committees.

This committee should approve the legal advisor during a two -thirds vote. Or, the Senate could vote on a resolution to grant a legal advisor, which also requires that two thirds of the legislators will advance.

Last month, the Democrats invoked the “rule of five”, a law of 1928 which obliges government agencies to submit information if five legislators within a Senate committee or the Jurisdiction Chamber on information makes a request. As a rule, it is considered a tool for the minority party to exercise supervisory powers.

Schumer says that the centenary law obliges Trump Doj, the FBI to publish Jeffrey Epstein files by the deadline of August

President Donald Trump listens to a question of a journalist on August 11, 2025 in Washington. (AP / Mark Schiefelbein)

In a letter sent to the White House and the Doj, Schumer and the Democrats of the Senate Homeland Security Panel accused that it is “essential that the Trump administration ensures complete transparency”, by publishing the files related to the late pedophile.

“We ask you to make these promises of transparency,” they wrote.

The Democrats’ request included all the documents, files, evidence and other documents that the DOJ had linked to the US c. Jeffrey Epstein, as well as all the files related to Epstein and its customers.

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However, it remains to be seen whether the law is enforceable in court, since it has rarely been used since its creation.

The last attempt occurred in 2017, when the Democrats tried to force the release of documents surrounding the lease of the old post office building in the district, which has become one of Trump’s hotels.