{"id":65991,"date":"2026-02-10T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/democrats-introduce-bill-to-end-statute-of-limitations-on-civil-sexual-abuse-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:57:08","slug":"democrats-introduce-bill-to-end-statute-of-limitations-on-civil-sexual-abuse-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/democrats-introduce-bill-to-end-statute-of-limitations-on-civil-sexual-abuse-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats introduce bill to end statute of limitations on civil sexual abuse cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation, called Virginia\u2019s Law, after Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of Epstein\u2019s abuse, also tackles jurisdiction<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in Congress were joined on Capitol Hill by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s abuse to introduce legislation to end the statute of limitations and restrictions on jurisdiction in civil sexual abuse cases.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes less than two weeks after the justice department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/department-justice-publishes-35-million-responsive-pages-compliance-epstein-files\">released<\/a> 3.5m pages of heavily redacted documents related to Epstein, as ordered by the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/10\/democrats-virginias-law-sexual-abuse-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation, called Virginia\u2019s Law, after Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of Epstein\u2019s abuse, also tackles jurisdiction Democrats in Congress were joined on Capitol Hill by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s abuse to introduce legislation to end the statute of limitations and restrictions on jurisdiction in civil sexual abuse cases. The move comes less than two weeks after &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats introduce bill to end statute of limitations on civil sexual abuse cases\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/democrats-introduce-bill-to-end-statute-of-limitations-on-civil-sexual-abuse-cases\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats introduce bill to end statute of limitations on civil sexual abuse cases\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}