CNN legal expert Elie Honig flagged what he described as a "huge loophole" in the bill President Donald Trump just signed to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Trump announced late Wednesday night that he signed the Epstein Transparency Act, a bill that was sent to his desk with support from a veto-proof majority of lawmakers. The bill requires the government to release the records within 30 days, but Honig noted there is some language tucked into the legislation that could allow the administration to continue to stall.
Honig discussed the loopholes on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."
"All of this is highly abnormal," Honig said. "In a regular case, DOJ would never just open up its files like this."
"One really important thing I want people to understand, though, is that there's a huge loophole in the law itself that President Trump just signed and that says that DOJ does not have to make public any materials relating to ongoing criminal investigations," he continued.
"And what that means is it's going to be up to Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, and Kash Patel," he added. "If they want to say, 'Well, that relates to some ongoing investigation,' it will be redacted or it will be left out, and we will not see that."
