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The Wall and the Slots: What the Epstein Files Case Is Actually About

There is a kind of lawsuit that is not really a lawsuit about law at all. It is a lawsuit about whether the government will do the thing it said it would do. Phang v. Blanche is one of those, and it is worth following not because the legal question is hard, but because the legal question is easy and the government has spent five months finding ways not to answer it. ...

September 24, 2026 · 22 min · 4479 words · Philip Huffman