Judge Detested by Trump (Tanya Chutkan) Will Oversee Epstein Files Case

[Eugene]

Source: The New Republic

Judge Detested by Trump Will Oversee Epstein Files Case

Edith Olmsted
Fri, August 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM EDT
1 min read

A lawsuit seeking a trove of government documents related to Jeffrey Epstein just got passed to the federal judge who made Donald Trump’s life a living hell.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who previously presided over Trump’s federal election interference case, will now oversee a new lawsuit from Democracy Forward Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit, requesting the Department of Justice and the FBI release any communications between Trump officials on the Epstein matter, any communication between Trump and Epstein himself, and Epstein’s so-called client list that Attorney General Pam Bondi previously acknowledged having in her possession.

In conjunction with several Freedom of Information Act requests, DFF also requested expedited processing. DFF argued that the swift acquisition of the documents was a “matter of widespread and exceptional media interest in which there exist possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence” and that there was a particular exigency in light of Trump’s refusal to rule out clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/judge-trump-absolutely-hates-oversee-153349557.html

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Absolutely perfect.

[forgotmylogin]

32. If someone has committed enough crimes that their judges start repeating...

Maybe....that person should not be an elected official.

[Ocelot II]

2. Hahahahahaha!

[niyad]

3. Oh dear. The ketchup must be flying again!

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Deeeee licious!!!

[WiVoter]

5. Excellent!

[electric_blue68]

6. Oooooooo 👀 😄

[JoseBalow]

7. LOL!

[rubbersole]

8. tsf has gotta be getting close to the "I'm not going to comply" tantrum.

Hope he does it right after meeting pootie in Alaska. Remove any doubt about who's calling the shots.

[Deuxcents]

9. I'm concerned for her safety, to be honest

[Marie Marie]

19. My thought as well. How long before he puts his "verbal hit" on her to his moronic goon squad?

[calimary]

28. Indeed.

In this day and age, unfortunately, it IS a legitimate concern.

[mountain grammy]

10. I've learned not to get my hopes up.

[popsdenver]

30. You are just being

pragmatic................After six months of Trump being in control of the FBI and DOJ most records have been "disappeared" ...........
Knowing Trump, he probably has them all, in his Mar-a-GAGo bathrooms, to use to black mail all the people on the list of Epstein's Clients.....

[hildegaard28]

11. But why

Would he be afraid? If he's done nothing wrong, he has nothing to fear, right? Right?

[spanone]

12. K&R

[UTUSN]

13. knr

[Beachnutt]

14. How did Trump's federal election interference case turn out ?

Same old same old.....

[people]

15. Best news I've heard since his 2nd term began!!!

[soldierant]

16. This made me smile.

[LudwigPastorius]

17. There's not a whole lot the judge can do if all of the requested information has been disappeared by Trump & Co.

...which I suspect it has.

[iluvtennis]

18. Woohoo - love it.

[Justice matters.]

20. Good news, but....

is that why he wants to make DC a Fascist Military hell-hole?

[NameAlreadyTaken]

21. Make His Life Hell Again

[Dave Bowman]

22. This could be interesting.

[kimbutgar]

23. Best news I've heard in awhile

This will drive the orange pedo crazy and make stress him out so much he strokes out!

I dream can’t I?

[BoRaGard]

24. "unfair - whine, whine, whine - so unfair." - Krasnov (r-felon/golf-cheater)

He will pull his standard republicon whine fiesta.

such a lameass gop man baby,

[calimary]

29. It's whine-making season.

Again.

[republianmushroom]

25. Maybe there will be truth.

[Bayard]

26. He will try to get her impeached,

Claiming she's biased. You know, biased toward the truth. And that she's black. And a woman.

[pfitz59]

27. Discovery

Demand ALL evidence in all media formats.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

31. Didn't this already happen?

Or was she overseeing some other crime that got tossed when he was "elected"? The classified documents in the potty case?

JFC, will this nightmare EVER END??!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. Deadline: Legal Blog--Lawsuit over Epstein files could expose Trump administration's handling of the matter

After the DOJ’s loss on unsealing Maxwell grand jury materials, a new lawsuit could reveal information about the administration’s Epstein-related actions.

Lawsuit over Epstein files could expose Trump administration’s handling of the matter www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-08-11T18:27:27.386Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/lawsuit-epstein-files-foia-trump-administration-rcna224254

The lawsuit, from nonprofit Democracy Forward, seeks to shed light on the administration’s actions by asking a judge in Washington, D.C., to order the government to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. The group filed Freedom of Information Act requests, detailed in its complaint filed Friday, seeking senior administration officials’ “communications regarding the Epstein matter, including those regarding correspondence between President Trump and Epstein, as well as records concerning agency review of the Epstein matter.”

The suit has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who presided over Donald Trump’s federal election interference case, which the DOJ moved to dismiss after he won the 2024 presidential election.

The legal claim in the new suit is that the government failed to comply with FOIA by not granting speedy processing of the group’s requests under the federal transparency law.

“By failing to grant Plaintiff’s requests for expedited processing on Plaintiff’s FOIA requests concerning matters of widespread and exceptional media interest in which there exist possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence, ... and national urgent need to inform the public, ... [government] Defendants have violated FOIA,” the complaint alleges.

The administration will have an opportunity to respond in court. How it does so will reveal its latest stance in the affair that has dogged the White House for its lack of transparency and failure to fulfill its promise to release the full Epstein records.