The federal judge now overseeing the Justice Department's request to unseal grand jury records from Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal case said in a new order Tuesday that he plans to rule "expeditiously" on the matter but requires more information before he can do so.

Two federal judges on Tuesday gave the Department of Justice until next week to provide more details in its request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Two federal judges asked the Justice Department on Tuesday for more information before deciding whether to unseal grand jury transcripts in the cases of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.