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Every record this desk has filed under foia, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
The Epstein records fight moved on three fronts in three weeks. A judge closed one door on Ghislaine Maxwell, DOJ opened an appeal, and nobody agrees on what a redaction log is.
Between August 13 and September 2 the court record around the Epstein files moved in three places at once. In Manhattan, the judge who oversaw Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal case denied her motion to vacate her conviction, calling her claims all meritless and all or almost all frivolous, and found the new evidence she pointed to — principally EFTA releases — largely irrelevant to the charges against her. In Washington, in the Epstein Files Transparency Act suit Phang v. Blanche, the court heard oral argument on August 13, the Justice Department filed a protective notice of appeal of the June 25 preliminary injunction, and DOJ and the plaintiff are now fighting over whether a report DOJ published in the Federal Register satisfies the law's redaction-log duty. No ruling on that dispute has been entered. Here is what each filing says, and the dates to watch next.
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Nobody refuses you. They let the clock do it.
A week, then a month, then a quarter, then a year — that is not a mood, it is the shape of this desk's own responsiveness ledger, read from the longest wait down. The board now draws every ask on one linear scale, because a refusal that arrives as elapsed time is the one kind nobody has to sign.
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