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A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to release additional unredacted Epstein files or spell out by July 2 why they cannot comply.

Getting into it: US District Judge Emmet Sullivan granted a preliminary injunction in a suit by independent journalist Katie Phang, finding the Trump administration had likely violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Sullivan wrote that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche “has conceded that he is in violation of the Act” by failing to substantively respond to her allegations, and he ordered the department to also publish a running log of every redaction it’s applied.

The documents at issue include at least eight email exchanges with Epstein referencing a “torture video” and sexual activity with minors, with the senders and recipients blacked out, as well as the names of co-conspirators in a draft indictment. One 2017 email told Epstein a girl was “like Lolita from Nabokov,” while another defended interest in “14 to 15 year old girls.” Some details have since emerged, including that the “torture video” emailer was identified as a former Dubai logistics executive.

The order also covers FBI interview notes with a woman who says that back in the 1980s, when she was roughly 13, Epstein brought her to Trump, who attacked her. Agents judged her account credible and sat down with her on four separate occasions, though the claims are uncorroborated, Trump has denied them, and he has not been charged. Outlets that combed through the earlier releases said 37 pages of her account were still unaccounted for.

Sullivan rejected the DOJ’s argument that Phang should have used a Freedom of Information Act request, noting that she had been denied such requests and that the Epstein Act mandated a broader, less redacted release than FOIA would. He also denied the department’s bid to pause his order, after it blew past a 1 p.m. Thursday deadline to respond. Phang’s attorney said the government “ignored its own law” to protect “the very powerful and the very rich.”

This all comes after months of anger over how the DOJ has handled the files, which Trump reluctantly signed into law after first pressing lawmakers to kill it.