Jamie Raskin

Jamie Raskin has represented Maryland’s 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017 and is a member of the Democratic Party. He assumed the role of Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee on January 3, 2025, after previously serving as Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee from 2023 to 2025. Before his election to Congress, Raskin was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law for more than 25 years, and he served as the lead impeachment manager during the second impeachment of President Donald Trump.

Raskin’s connection to the Epstein matter is in his capacity as a lawmaker conducting congressional oversight, not as a person named in the underlying records. As Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, he has been involved in the legislative push to release the government’s Epstein files. The 2025 law requires the Attorney General to make all unclassified Department of Justice documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s prosecution publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format within 30 days of passage, and it bars withholding documents on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity to government officials or public figures. The House passed the bill on November 18, 2025, by a vote of 427–1.

After portions of the files were made available to lawmakers, Raskin publicly criticized how the Justice Department handled congressional access. As reported by PBS NewsHour on February 12, 2026, Raskin — described as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee — accused the department of “spying” on members of Congress who reviewed less-redacted files at a department annex using department-owned computers, and he requested that the DOJ inspector general investigate. He said the “DOJ must immediately cease tracking any Members’ searches, open up the Epstein review to senior congressional staff, and publicly release all files — with all the survivors’ information, and only the survivors’ information, properly redacted — as required by federal law.” The same outlet quoted him saying that the department had not only withheld records from lawmakers but that “Bondi and her team are spying on members of Congress conducting oversight in yet another blatant attempt to intrude into Congress’s oversight processes.”

Is Jamie Raskin in the Epstein files?

Based on the sources reviewed here, Raskin’s role is that of a lawmaker and investigator, not an individual named in the files as connected to Epstein. The PBS NewsHour reporting describes him as the senior House Judiciary Committee Democrat pushing for the release of the records and challenging how the Justice Department managed congressional access to them. His documented involvement concerns the legislative and oversight effort to compel disclosure of the government’s Epstein records — including the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which the House passed 427–1 — rather than any personal or social relationship with Epstein. Nothing in the sources reviewed here indicates that Raskin himself is named in the files as connected to Epstein’s conduct.