Judge Richard Berman issued a blistering rebuke of President Donald Trump's administration for refusing to release more than 100,000 pages of documents it has from the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. One legal expert is calling it "quite a response."

In a ruling on Wednesday, Berman blasted, "The Government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70-odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials."

"The Government is the logical party to make a comprehensive disclosure to the public of the Epstein Files. By comparison, the instant grand jury motion appears to be a 'diversion' from the breadth and scope of the Epstein files in the Government's possession," the judge wrote.

Speaking to CNN about it, legal analyst Elliot Williams told Brianna Keilar, "It is quite a response."

He explained that it isn't shocking to see a judge not release grand jury information; what is novel, however, is the judge calling out the request as a distraction or diversion from the information that they are not releasing.

"I think the good faith question is a very important one, to be clear. It would have been incredibly unlikely for grand jury materials to ever have been released in this case," Williams continued. "The law is remarkably clear on this issue, and it's really only subject to very few exceptions when you would ever make grand jury materials public. So, then the next question is, well, what could be made public? It's whatever is in the Justice Department's possession."

The judge went so far as to reference the trove of documents from the DOJ's investigation that it used in the case and noted that it has the full authority to release them.

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