A trio of Home Democrats on Friday demanded the Division of Justice “instantly stop” monitoring lawmakers’ evaluate of the unredacted recordsdata on convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Reps. Jamie Raskin, Pramila Jayapal and Robert Garcia despatched a letter to Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi urging the Justice Division to “develop a brand new protocol” that may enable members to “meaningfully” evaluate the “totally unredacted paperwork.”
Jayapal, who sits on the Home Judiciary Committee, has accused Bondi of “spying” on her search historical past when the congresswoman visited the DOJ earlier this week to view unredacted recordsdata on Epstein.
Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi takes her seat earlier than testifying earlier than a Home Judiciary Committee listening to on “Oversight of the Division of Justice” on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 11, 2026.
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At a Home Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Bondi appeared to have printouts — seen in images — titled “Jayapal Pramila Search Historical past.” They included a diagram of a number of paperwork from the DOJ’s recordsdata that Jayapal searched.
“Over a dozen Democratic Members of our Committees, in addition to Consultant Thomas Massie, have seen these recordsdata and presumably additionally been spied on by DOJ. Your conduct is so outrageous that even the Republican Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson has condemned this apply,” the letter states.
“The surveillance of Consultant Jayapal’s searches, and people of dozens of others, is simply the newest effort by DOJ to intrude with Congress’s oversight of the Epstein cover-up,” the letter added.
The lawmakers request {that a} assembly be arrange by Friday, Feb. 20, to debate the surveillance of their searches in hopes of making a brand new course of for members to evaluate the Epstein recordsdata.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal sits in entrance of a poster of an e mail from the Epstein recordsdata as she questions Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi throughout a Home Judiciary Committee listening to, February 11, 2026 in Washington.
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“We additionally demand that you simply commit, in writing, to right away ceasing monitoring Members’ evaluate of the Epstein recordsdata,” the letter states.
The Justice Division did not instantly have a remark concerning the letter as of Friday night.
Earlier this week, the division mentioned in an announcement, “DOJ logs all searches made on its methods to guard in opposition to the discharge of sufferer info.”
The Justice Division didn’t supply any clarification for why Bondi had a printout of Jayapal’s search historical past throughout Wednesday’s listening to.
