{"id":142307,"date":"2026-01-21T10:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/21\/judge-denies-lawmakers-bid-for-independent-oversight-of-epstein-files-release\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:03:16","slug":"judge-denies-lawmakers-bid-for-independent-oversight-of-epstein-files-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/21\/judge-denies-lawmakers-bid-for-independent-oversight-of-epstein-files-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Denies Lawmakers’ Bid for Independent Oversight of Epstein Files Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manhattan federal judge Paul Engelmayer said the request from U.S. Reps. Ro Khanna, D-California, and Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, “raised legitimate concerns” but that he had no authority to appoint a special master or independent monitor.<\/p>\n

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Manhattan federal judge Paul Engelmayer said the request from U.S. Reps. Ro Khanna, D-California, and Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, “raised legitimate concerns” but that he had no authority to appoint a special master or independent monitor.<\/p>\n

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Manhattan federal judge Paul Engelmayer said the request from U.S. Reps. Ro Khanna, D-California, and Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, “raised legitimate concerns” but that he had no authority to appoint a special master or independent monitor. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Manhattan federal judge Paul Engelmayer said the request from U.S. Reps. Ro Khanna, D-California, and Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, “raised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/legal-news-5OXSzB.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}