The Justice Department renewed its effort Friday to publicly release grand jury records related to the criminal prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime ally and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.

Three federal judges earlier this year rebuffed the Trump administration’s bid to force the grand jury material into the public, part of a hurried push by Justice Department leaders to quell a furor within Trump’s base after the FBI announced it had no evidence linking Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking ring to a long list of high-powered associates.

The judges, based in Florida and New York, panned the unsealing effort, in part because they noted the Justice Department already had reams of material that it could release on its own. In addition, they said, the grand jury records themselves were limited and unlikely to shed new light on the evidence against Epstein and Maxwell.

Justice Department leaders say President Donald Trump’s decision to sign the Epstein Files Transparency Act this week — ordering the release of nearly all of the investigative files held by the Justice Department and FBI — has changed the equation. Though federal law typically requires grand jury material to remain secret, they say the new law supersedes those restrictions, with few exceptions.

“The Act does not exempt all grand jury transcripts from public production,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Manolo Reboso wrote in a filing asking a Florida-based judge to release relevant grand jury records. “Public production of the grand jury material is therefore required.”

The new law, which Trump belatedly endorsed after it became clear it was going to pass with the support of many congressional Republicans, requires the Justice Department to release its massive trove of records by mid-December.