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Subpoena Power

The power of Congress and the judiciary to issue subpoenas and the limitations of executive privilege in this context.

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Feb 5, 2026

What specific powers and recent actions has the House Oversight Committee used in the Epstein investigation?

has marshaled its statutory investigatory tools—subpoenas, threats and votes to hold witnesses in contempt, public releases of documents provided by and , and formal House directives to continue and p...

Feb 4, 2026

How did JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank respond formally to the November 2025 subpoenas and what, if any, legal objections did they raise?

Both and responded to the November 2025 by turning over bank records connected to to the ; the committee’s Republican majority reported receiving "approximately 5,000 documents" from the two banks . R...

Feb 4, 2026

How did the House Oversight Committee obtain and authenticate the Epstein birthday book material it released to Congress?

The obtained the “” after issuing a subpoena to Epstein’s estate on August 25, 2025 and after sustained pressure from Democratic members of the panel; the estate delivered an electronic copy that the ...

Feb 4, 2026

Did Bill Clinton have any documented ties to Epstein's island?

Public records and reporting establish that had social and travel ties to — including multiple flights on Epstein’s private plane and mentions in Epstein-related files — but the available, vetted evid...

Feb 3, 2026

Which Epstein‑related allegations in the DOJ files led to subsequent investigations or subpoenas by federal or state authorities?

The ’s January 2026 release of roughly three million -related pages put specific allegations into public view that immediately triggered at least one formal subpoena from Congress and prompted at leas...

Feb 2, 2026

What components of the Epstein archives remain sealed or disputed and what oversight is in place for future releases?

says it published the last major tranche of —over 3 million pages, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos—on January 30, 2026 and characterized that release as with . That claim is disputed: bipartisan criti...

Feb 1, 2026

Which Clinton staffers had contact with Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s and were they interviewed?

Documents released from ’s estate and subsequent media analyses show frequent communications between and Clinton office addresses in the early 2000s and record travel by and his staff on Epstein’s pla...

Jan 31, 2026

What did the subpoenas issued by the House Oversight Committee to JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank specifically demand and when were they served?

Two distinct sets of and are in the record: one bundle issued by House committees in April 2019 seeking President Trump–related financial and tax records, and a later set issued by on November 18, 202...

Jan 19, 2026

Which congressional subpoenas or lawsuits are currently challenging DOJ redactions in the Epstein document releases?

Two parallel lines of pressure are now colliding over the Justice Department’s heavily redacted Epstein releases: formal congressional subpoenas from House investigators — most prominently an August 5...

Jan 16, 2026

What evidence has the House Oversight Committee produced about Epstein-related intelligence documents?

The House Oversight Committee has released and publicly posted large troves of Jeffrey Epstein–related material drawn from both the Department of Justice and Epstein’s estate—tens of thousands of page...

Jan 13, 2026

What do the estate documents reveal about Jeffrey Epstein’s bank accounts and what avenues exist to subpoena the underlying financial institution records?

Records produced by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to the House Oversight Committee and released in batches show that the estate possessed bank-related material — ledgers, copies of bank account statements ...