Louisiana GOP Rep. Clay Higgins was the sole member of the House of Representatives to cast a « no » vote just now on the resolution to force the Justice Department to publicize all files in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Only one member of Congress went on the record Tuesday to vote against compelling the Justice Department to publicize all its files in the notorious Jeffrey Epstein case.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) was the lone “no” in the 427-1 House vote supporting the resolution.
Later Tuesday, the Senate agreed to approve the measure by unanimous consent, sparing its members from being put on the spot in a recorded vote and sending the bill directly to President Trump for his signature.
The 64-year-old Higgins, a former law enforcement officer who has represented the Pelican State’s 3rd District since 2017, provided a detailed explanation for his unpopular move on X.
“I have been a principled ‘NO’ on this bill from the beginning,” he wrote. “What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America.
“As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people – witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote,” Higgins continued.
“The [House] Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation that has already released well over 60,000 pages of documents from the Epstein case,” the lawmaker went on.
