{"id":37632,"date":"2025-12-16T23:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/democrats-to-block-senate-nominations-over-bondis-failure-on-epstein-files\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:33:25","slug":"democrats-to-block-senate-nominations-over-bondis-failure-on-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/democrats-to-block-senate-nominations-over-bondis-failure-on-epstein-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats to block Senate nominations over Bondi\u2019s \u2018failure\u2019 on Epstein files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate duo condemn Trump administration and say \u2018there can be no business as usual until justice is delivered\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Two Democratic senators have announced that they will attempt to<strong> <\/strong>block any pending civilian nominations before the Senate in response to what they describe as the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cfailure to provide a briefing to lawmakers\u201d on the release of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n of New Mexico, who both sponsored the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-murkowski-lujan-massie-khanna-demand-doj-briefing-on-release-of-the-epstein-files\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Epstein Files Transparency Act<\/a>, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-lujan-no-business-as-usual-until-justice-delivered-for-jeffrey-epsteins-victims\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> on Tuesday that \u201cthere can be no business as usual until justice is delivered for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s horrific crimes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/16\/democrats-epstein-files-pam-bondi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate duo condemn Trump administration and say \u2018there can be no business as usual until justice is delivered\u2019 Two Democratic senators have announced that they will attempt to block any pending civilian nominations before the Senate in response to what they describe as the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cfailure to provide a briefing to lawmakers\u201d on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 20:46:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}