Democrats on the Oversight Committee made a motion for the subpoena, just hours before the House was scheduled to end its work session.

California has nine House Republicans (and 43 Democrats), and three are members of the House Judiciary Committee, which writes legislation on crime and justice matters and is a watchdog on the Justice Department.

James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent a subpoena to Ghislaine Maxwell to try and get her testimony from behind bars in federal prison in Tallahassee.

A bipartisan effort to force a binding House vote on releasing the “Epstein files” has picked up Republican support, though just how many in the GOP ultimately support the measure won’t be seen at least until the lower chamber returns from its August recess.

Jeffrey Epstein is one of the rare issues where Trump appears to be out of step with his base by questioning why public interest remains in the case.

Donald Trump’s bid to smother the uproar over accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein shows that he’s already achieved one goal his critics most feared from his second presidency.

The case of Jeffrey Epstein, sex offender and former friend of the president, has blown up into a major headache for the White House.