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A federal judge in NY, meanwhile, has denied Ghislaine Maxwell's request to see the grand jury transcripts, saying defendants virtually never get to see that highly secret material, espescially after trial.
He says he'll touch base if he wants her views.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.539611/gov.uscourts.nysd.539611.794.0.pdf
A federal judge in NY, meanwhile, has denied Ghislaine Maxwell's request to see the grand jury transcripts, saying defendants virtually never get to see that highly secret material, espescially after trial.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T19:17:39.806Z
He says he'll touch base if he wants her views. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

LetMyPeopleVote
(170,351 posts)There are statutory requirements for release of grand jury material. The trump motion did NOT pretend to address these requirements or meet requirements such as notifying the victims. The motion filed was so deficient that it has to be refiled
But the judges gave the Trump DOJ the chance to do better by July 29. Maxwell, an Epstein representative and the victims can weigh in, too.
Judges deem Trump motions to unseal Epstein and Maxwell grand jury transcripts inadequate share.google/zSxZZcvYbSRb...
— SherryRN @pissedoffnurse (@sherryll.bsky.social) 2025-07-23T18:31:37.090Z
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-maxwell-trump-motions-judges-rcna220298
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche had filed unsealing motions on both the Epstein and Maxwell dockets amid the political backlash President Donald Trump has faced for his administrations refusal to make public all Epstein-related materials as promised......
The orders sending Blanche back to the drawing board on Tuesday came from U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer, an Obama appointee whos presiding over the Maxwell docket, and U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, a Clinton appointee whos handling the Epstein docket. Both judges are in the Southern District of New York, where Maxwell and Epstein were charged. The orders are similarly worded; you can read the Maxwell one here and the Epstein one here.
Both orders say that the judges intend to resolve the unsealing motions expeditiously but that Blanches filings were inadequate. The judges gave the DOJ a week, until July 29, to file a more detailed memorandum making the case for unsealing.
Among other things, the judges said the DOJ has to say in the memorandum whether it reviewed the grand jury transcripts in question before making the requests and whether victims were notified.
Both judges were pissed at the crappy job done by the DOJ. Here are links to the two orders
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.539612/gov.uscourts.nysd.539612.789.0.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.518649/gov.uscourts.nysd.518649.63.0.pdf