Ankush Khardori is a senior writer for POLITICO Magazine and a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice. His column, Rules of Law, offers an unvarnished look at national legal affairs and the political dimensions of the law at a moment when the two are inextricably linked.

"If the president wants to know what they need to do in order to put an end to this endless, endless conversation about Jeffrey Epstein — release the file." Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen joined Antonia Hylton on The Beat and reacts to The Wall Street Journal's new report that the DOJ notified Trump in May that his name appeared in the Epstein files.

A Florida federal judge has denied the Department of Justice’s request to release grand jury transcripts from the original criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Judge Robin L. Rosenberg of the U.

A Florida federal judge rejected the Justice Department's bid to unseal grand jury testimony tied to investigations of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, under the guise of his deputy attorney general title, spent two days interviewing sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in what is widely recognized as an effort by Trump to take attention off his association with Epstein.

Trump had directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to release “any and all pertinent" grand jury documents as pressure continues to mount on the administration over Epstein.