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A special election in Arizona gives the House of Representatives enough support to force a vote that could compel the Justice Department to release all of its files on Jeffrey Epstein.

The vote could come as early as late October.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, objects to the measure and has worked to keep it off the House floor.

The U.S. House will soon have enough support to maneuver around Republican leadership and force a vote compelling the Justice Department to release all of the Jeffrey Epstein case files.

Adelita Grijalva’s win Tuesday in a special House election in southern Arizona gives Democrats one more supporter for a procedure — called a discharge petition — to circumvent Republican leadership’s control of the House floor and hold a vote on

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