U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi approached testimony before the House Judiciary Committee the same way she has at hearings past: by sparring with lawmakers and deflecting their questions with personalized critiques pulled from a binder of notes.

But Bondi’s strategy came under increased scrutiny this week as news cameras caught sight of a new addition to her hearing prep: a page devoted to a Democratic lawmaker’s search history from the Justice Department’s database of unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files.

Images published by Reuters and Getty show Bondi flipping past a page labeled “Jayapal Pramila Search History,” an apparent reference to Washington Democratic representative Pramila Jayapal, which included a list of log numbers and descriptions of various documents in the Epstein database. On Monday, lawmakers were allowed to access the unredacted versions of the federal government’s files connected to the investigation into the disgraced financier that were publicized following the passage of the Epstein........

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