Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is looking to capitalize on the Jeffrey Epstein feud roiling Republicans by trying to invoke a nearly century-old law to require the release of files detailing those once connected to the late child sex offender.

Senate Democrats’ use of the maneuver marks their most aggressive effort to date to compel the files and comes as they increasingly see the saga as a political opportunity to splinter the GOP, a strategy House Democrats first mounted weeks ago.

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