U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is accusing Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) of blocking her request to file a subpoena for Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs.
“@SenatorDurbin BLOCKED my request to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein’s Flight logs. What are Democrats trying to hide?” Sen. Blackburn wrote on X Thursday.
“We were trying to get my subpoenas of Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs, and the subpoena of [Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor and her book deal — things that weren’t reported but we have found out about this through the news,” Blackburn said in a video posted Thursday evening.
“And of course the Chairman blocked it all, cut it off — that’s not how this committee is supposed to work,” Blackburn said.
Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier who ran a child sex trafficking ring, cultivated an elite social circle consisting of several high-profile celebrities and politicians.
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Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York, and died in his jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial.
In July of this year a Department of Justice watchdog group released a report on Epstein’s death, saying a combination of negligence, misconduct and “outright job performance failures” allowed the sex trafficker to commit suicide in his cell.
Epstein’s longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving a twenty-year federal prison sentence after being convicted for her role in procuring and transporting minors to engage in sexual activity.
“This is a sad day in the history of the prestigious Judiciary Committee and further underscores the Left’s two tiers of justice crusade,” Blackburn said in a statement Thursday.
“Senate Democrats have long been trying to undermine the Supreme Court and Justice Clarence Thomas, but want to ignore Justice Sotomayor allegedly using her taxpayer-funded staff to coordinate speaking engagements in exchange for selling and promoting thousands of her books,” she said.
“They also don’t want to have a conversation about the estate of Jeffrey Epstein to find out the names of every person who participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s human trafficking ring,” she added.
Although apparently blocking subpoenas against Epstein and Justice Sotomayor, Sen. Durbin announced Thursday that the Senate Judiciary Committee had issued subpoenas to Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo — two major Republican Party donors who Durbin says “are at the center of the Supreme Court’s ethical crisis.”
The Republican members of the Committee staged a walkout shortly before the Democrats voted to subpoena the conservative donors, resulting in the Committee not having a quorum.
The Minority Senate Judiciary Republicans claim that the subpoenas were passed by an “illegitimate vote” due to Chairman Durbin blocking discussion and not allowing for amendments to be offered in violation of committee rules.
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Following up on her criticism of the Democratic Senate Judiciary Chairman, Sen. Blackburn again called for the subpoena of Epstein’s flight logs Friday.
“We need to uncover the names of every individual who participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific human trafficking ring,” she wrote.
Maine Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses exclusively with majority Democrats, did not respond to an inquiry asking whether he would support the release of the Epstein flight logs.
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One small but technical problem with Senator Blackburn’s claim. The Committee Republicans filibustered throughout the hearing which by Committee rules blocks amending the subpoena resolution to include Epstein. Rules are rules and trying to shift blame is os typical of all Republicans.
On another note, Republicans hate it when Democrats use the same rules that they do. If you can’t grasp what that means then you never read beyond headlines.
What a load of horse sheet. Don’t be like Mike kids.
This says a lot about the Demoncrats when they choose to defend a pedophile rather than advance an important criminal investigation. Is there any weird, sick devious behaviors they don’t support?
This should be no surprise since Turban Durban, the protector of child traffickers and pedophiles, was also the lead member of the “Jihad Caucus” who wanted to close Gitmo. https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/sen-durbins-jihad-caucus/
What do you expect, , there is a pedophile in the White House!
During the LD 1619 extending abortion up to a pre barn’s first breath I witnessed first hand the works of our own House Judiciary committee. The democrats in power literally denied the Republicans the opportunity to have their own expert witnesses testify while allowing their own pro abortion expert witnesses to testify.
Recall the democrat mantra that they are the party to fight for democracy to protect it from the MAGA extremist Republicans. The shenanigans this committee pulled for example announcing to the large group representing Life that they would not be resuming the next day and then they resume and vote while the supporters were not in attendance. Then you have the Speaker of the house when it was time for the LD 1619 vote calling for a 30 minute recess which went on to 5 hours giving time for them to get their Representatives to travel from remote districts in order to vote for the killing of the viable near born lives.
When you read the partisan actions on our National Judiciary committee know that this partisan one sided hypocritical rule is also happening here in little old Maine. Good people would be shocked to learn what the representation they voted for is doing with special interest groups to get their agenda across. Of course i’m referring to good people not the ones who masquerade as good caring people. Our media fails to inform people due to their sly extreme bias.
Thank you Maine Wire!
Another item that is highly disturbing is what the Democrat leadership did to a Democrat Rep who was not committed to vote for the killing of the viable pre born was asking this Rep if his/her son enjoyed his/her new job. What does that imply? How does one interpret that?
Maine has lost its way with the rule of these Democrat Socialist who push their special interest agenda at all cost without regard to what was once considered moral and ethical behavior.
Typical of Democrats, progressives and their ilk. Disgusting.
Democrat-led Senate Judiciary Committee colleagues were Frequent Flyers to Epstein Island
Now who leads the Republican Party? Former President Donald J. Trump is on tape and under oath saying he can grab women by their pu$$ies. It seems all Republicans believe that is moral and can quote scripture allowing it.
Of course you did not get a reply from Anus King, he is in too much of a hurry trying to take away gun rights!
Is Mike Grove the Maine Wire’s version of Juan Williams?