Filing by attorney general Raúl Torrez comes after DoJ appears to have ignored deadline for key Epstein ranch files

Filing by attorney general Raúl Torrez comes after DoJ appears to have ignored deadline for key Epstein ranch files

New Mexico filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice and acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, on Wednesday for “stonewalling” its criminal investigation into the activities of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein at a remote ranch in the state.

Raúl Torrez, the New Mexico attorney general, had said he was mulling the possibility of legal action if the justice department did not share with him by 31 July information about the alleged historical abuse of girls and young women at Epstein’s Zorro ranch about 30 miles south of Santa Fe.

Wednesday’s filing, seen by the Guardian, delivers on that threat after the justice department appeared to ignore last Friday’s deadline.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Not complying with a court order where the plaintiff is a normal citizen is one thing.

    Not complying with a court order where the plaintiff is the Attorney General of an elected state government, and thus effectively representing the interests of said state government, is another matter entirely. More pointedly, I expect Blanche Torrez (Blanche is DOJ and is one of the parties being sued, oops) to go full pitbull on this matter, and to leverage the whole legal apparatus of the state to the greatest degree possible against the DoJ here. That scenario, to be clear, is not something we have yet seen while this regime has been in power.