While the grand jury venue has not yet been announced, placing it outside D.C. would serve as a tactical win for the president.

A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday shot down the Trump administration’s unusual request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the Justice Department’s investigation into Ghislaine Maxwell, the predator and longtime confidant of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A federal judge on Monday shot down the Trump administration’s attempt to make the grand jury transcripts of Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking case made public. The Department of Justice has been trying to make the grand jury transcripts of the cases of Jeffrey Epstein,