As reported at The Politico, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who was the only individual in the US House to vote against the Epstein legislation to release the files by the DOJ. Rep. Higgins said it did so because of privacy. He stated that the passage of this legislation "abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America.:
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) was the lone “no” vote on the near-unanimous House legislation to force a release of the Justice Department’s files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,
He said on Tuesday that he opposed it on privacy grounds.
“It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America,” Higgins wrote on X.
“As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people — witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt.”