A Florida federal judge rejected the Justice Department's bid to unseal grand jury testimony tied to investigations of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A judge has rejected a Trump administration request to unseal transcripts from grand jury investigations of Jeffrey Epstein years ago in Florida

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana told reporters he expected the motion for the subpoena to pass with some changes.

The Justice Department told Donald Trump in May that his name appears in the government's Jeffrey Epstein files, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Committee Democrats had planned to force a vote on a resolution calling for the public release of Epstein-related documents

As a refresher: Epstein was a financier who paid teenage girls to perform sex acts. He used his onetime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell to recruit and manage his victims. He had a wide circle of influential friends and acquaintances, including Bill Clinton and Trump.

A new poll shows Americans have all but given up on seeing anyone in financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit hauled into court, underscoring deepening public distrust of the government’s official narrative about the disgraced financier’s 2019 death.

Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges for soliciting prostitution and soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008, but was hit with additional federal charges in 2019 before his death.