The Daily Fuckup

Pam Bondi is not expected to show up for the House Oversight Committee’s April 14 deposition on the Epstein files, according to committee Democrats, after Justice Department officials said the subpoena was issued to her while she was attorney general.

The committee issued the subpoena on March 17 and set the deposition for April 14. Its March 17 cover letter says the panel wanted Bondi to answer questions about the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein investigation and its compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

By April 8, Democrats on the committee said Bondi would not appear. The dispute has narrowed to a basic question: whether a subpoena directed at a cabinet official still reaches the same person after she leaves that job. The committee’s Democrats have cast Bondi’s absence as defiance of a lawful demand, while the Justice Department’s position, as described by lawmakers, is that the subpoena was tied to her service as attorney general.

The timing matters. Bondi left office on April 2, days before the scheduled deposition. That makes the April 14 date a test of whether the committee tries to enforce the subpoena as written or pursues another route to get testimony.

The separate Epstein records push is still moving. The Justice Department says it has published millions of responsive pages and maintains a public disclosure page for materials tied to the case. That does not settle the deposition fight, but it shows the records dispute and the witness dispute are proceeding on parallel tracks.