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Ocelot II

(131,231 posts)
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 11:12 AM Sep 2025

I'm not so sure. They seem to be trickling out, bit by bit,

and the latest bit tells us that Elon Musk went to Epstein's Pedo Island. That's not a surprise, but it does explain how Epstein knew Trump was in the files and was able to make that claim so confidently (which was obvious anyhow). It's possible that there's a Daniel Ellsberg somewhere in the FBI or elsewhere in the DoJ who will send a maxed-out flash drive to the media. But in the old days the NY Times and then the Washington Post had the guts to print the Pentagon Papers. Would they be so bold now? Nixon obtained an injunction preventing further publication and a 6-3 majority of SCOTUS held the injunction was an unconstitutional prior restraint, so finally we all got to read about how four successive administrations had been withholding information about the Vietnam war to make it look like it was winnable when it wasn't.

The Epstein files (probably) don't present issues of national security, but will Trump try to litigate their suppression? If so, will this SCOTUS be more comfortable with a prior restraint that protects him?

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