The Department of Justice has made a series of renewed requests in recent days to release grand jury transcripts from the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell criminal cases, citing the new federal transparency law that sets a 30-day deadline for public disclosure of the department’s Epstein records.

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton on Monday requested U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan for an expedited ruling to unseal grand jury transcripts from Maxwell’s 2021 sex trafficking case, writing in court filings that Congress had “overridden existing law” through the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed last week. Engelmayer and two other federal judges previously refused to unseal grand jury records from older cases involving the disgraced financier and his onetime girlfriend and associate, Maxwell, who is still serving a 15-year sentence for sex trafficking crimes.