Rep. Clay Higgins Explains Why He Voted ‘No’ for Epstein Recordsdata Invoice, However He Was Rapidly Neighborhood Famous

Yesterday (November 18), the Home of Representatives formally voted the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act via in a close to unanimous vote.

Only one politician, Republican Rep. Clay Higgins, voted “no.” The 64-year-old defined why, however his clarification was rapidly group famous on the social media platform X, previously often known as Twitter.

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He posted, “I’ve been a principled ‘NO’ on this invoice from the start. What was improper with the invoice three months in the past continues to be improper at this time. It abandons 250 years of prison justice process in America. As written, this invoice reveals and injures hundreds of harmless folks – witnesses, individuals who offered alibis, relations, and so forth. If enacted in its present kind, such a broad reveal of prison investigative information, launched to a rabid media, will completely lead to harmless folks being damage. Not by my vote. The Oversight Committee is conducting a radical investigation that has already launched nicely over 60,000 pages of paperwork from the Epstein case. That effort will proceed in a fashion that gives all due protections for harmless People. If the Senate amends the invoice to correctly handle privateness of victims and different People, who’re named however not criminally implicated, then I’ll vote for that invoice when it comes again to the Home.”

It was rapidly group famous, which you’ll be able to learn beneath.

By the way in which, on Tuesday (November 18), the Senate agreed to unanimously approve the Invoice and ship it on to Trump to signal. There will probably be no amendments to the invoice.