A judge blocked lawmakers’ bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein files in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial due to jurisdictional limits.

U.S. The judge denied lawmakers' request for a special master to supervise the Ghislaine Maxwell trial and decided that they could not use their lawsuit to compel the release of the remaining Jeffrey Epstein files. Despite acknowledging the lawsuit's legitimacy, the judge concluded that jurisdictional limitations prevented it from being connected to Maxwell's case. The documents, which contain private information about Epstein's network and are still under public and legal scrutiny, may still be obtained by lawmakers through independent legal action.