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groundloop

(13,335 posts)
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:42 AM 13 hrs ago

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, imprisoned former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein

Source: AP News

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein.

On the first day of their new term, the justices declined to take up a case that would have drawn renewed attention to the sordid sexual-abuse saga after President Donald Trump’s administration sought to tamp down criticism over its refusal to publicly release more investigative files from Epstein’s case.

Lawyers for Maxwell, a British socialite, argued that she never should have been tried or convicted for her role in luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein, a New York financier. She is serving a 20-year prison term, though she was moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after she was interviewed in July by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

[......]

Maxwell’s lawyers contended that a non-prosecution agreement reached in 2007 by federal prosecutors in Miami and Epstein’s lawyers also protected his “potential co-conspirators” from federal charges anywhere in the country.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-epstein-maxwell-appeal-a4ba832cd2a23a2c499cef23f1e30927

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Supreme Court rejects appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, imprisoned former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein (Original Post) groundloop 13 hrs ago OP
Her only hope is a pardon or commutation of her sentence. n/t Jacson6 13 hrs ago #1
Supreme Court rejects Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her criminal conviction LetMyPeopleVote 13 hrs ago #2
In cahoots dweller 13 hrs ago #3
Pretty sure Roberts and Co. had a chat with president pedo.. mountain grammy 13 hrs ago #4
I hope he does Bayard 9 hrs ago #12
Think of the repercussions ... think of the underlying Repuke fears FakeNoose 9 hrs ago #14
Just wondering ... ificandream 13 hrs ago #5
As some of us, despite some DU conspiracy theorists, predicted last summer onenote 13 hrs ago #6
Deadline Legal Blog-Supreme Court won't review Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal, which cited Epstein agreement LetMyPeopleVote 12 hrs ago #7
Some good news! PortTack 12 hrs ago #8
Ah, there it is in the last paragraph posted.... Hugin 12 hrs ago #9
That "presidential immunity" thing that SCOTUS invented just for Chump FakeNoose 9 hrs ago #15
The Empty Loaf is currently undermining his court ordered "presidential immunity" by ignoring the courts. Hugin 8 hrs ago #16
How does your theory square with the administration opposing her petition? onenote 7 hrs ago #17
You keep asking me that. Hugin 7 hrs ago #18
Where did I ask you that more than once? onenote 4 hrs ago #19
Back when the whole Maxwell thing first broke out... Hugin 3 hrs ago #20
A bridge too far? Or are they leading us down the garden path? (Something is up.) QueerDuck 11 hrs ago #10
Nah...on this PEDO person they'll let Trump do the dirty work. Bengus81 11 hrs ago #11
"Maxwell's Silver Slammer" came down upon her head... RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 9 hrs ago #13

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,781 posts)
2. Supreme Court rejects Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her criminal conviction
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:55 AM
13 hrs ago

Now this criminal has to wait until her fellow criminal issues a pardon

Supreme Court rejects Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction

Maxwell was convicted for her role in recruiting and grooming girls who were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Raymond Norman (@raymondnorman.bsky.social) 2025-10-06T13:43:10.535Z

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-epstein-associate-ghislaine-maxwells-appeal-crim-rcna233281
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge to her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.

The decision means that Maxwell’s conviction on three counts and her 20-year criminal sentence remain in place.

Maxwell’s lawyer David Oscar Markus argued in court papers that an agreement Epstein made with prosecutors in Florida, in which the then-U.S. attorney pledged not to prosecute him or potential co-conspirators, should apply to one of the three counts in her case, which was prosecuted in New York.

"We’re, of course, deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s case," Markus said in a statement. "But this fight isn’t over. Serious legal and factual issues remain, and we will continue to pursue every avenue available to ensure that justice is done," he added.

At issue in Maxwell’s appeal was whether the terms of a so-called nonprosecution agreement apply only in the district where it was negotiated or also bind federal prosecutors nationwide.

mountain grammy

(28,276 posts)
4. Pretty sure Roberts and Co. had a chat with president pedo..
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:04 AM
13 hrs ago

You take the hit on this one donny.. of course you have immunity.

Bayard

(27,278 posts)
12. I hope he does
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 01:33 PM
9 hrs ago

That would be proof of his own guilt. Of course, he will say she's been persecuted.

I am suprised at this decision by the Supremes.

FakeNoose

(38,877 posts)
14. Think of the repercussions ... think of the underlying Repuke fears
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 01:56 PM
9 hrs ago

"If we make an exception for her, then we have to start letting those black and brown people out of prison!"

Nope not gonna happen. But Chump can give her a special "pardon for old-times' sake" deal as long as her compliance is assured. You know ... no books, no interviews, just get out of the country as quickly and quietly as possible.

ificandream

(11,424 posts)
5. Just wondering ...
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:17 AM
13 hrs ago
"We’re, of course, deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s case," Markus said in a statement. "But this fight isn’t over. Serious legal and factual issues remain, and we will continue to pursue every avenue available to ensure that justice is done," he added.


Bankrolled by Trump, maybe?

onenote

(45,703 posts)
6. As some of us, despite some DU conspiracy theorists, predicted last summer
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:19 AM
13 hrs ago

See: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143504447

FWIW, as Ms. Toad and I explained, there was nothing particularly notable about the Court scheduling Maxwell's petition for consideration at its September 29 conference -- indeed, today's order disposed of over 800 petitions for certiorari without any comment or dissent from any of the justices apart from a handful of notations that a particular justice didn't participate in the consideration of a particular petition.

Another interesting note --- among the petitions that the Court denied was one filed by Laura Loomer against Mark Zuckerberg.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/100625zor_5368.pdf

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,781 posts)
7. Deadline Legal Blog-Supreme Court won't review Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal, which cited Epstein agreement
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:41 AM
12 hrs ago

Last edited Mon Oct 6, 2025, 02:51 PM - Edit history (1)

The convicted sex trafficker invoked Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous non-prosecution agreement that barred prosecuting his co-conspirators.

Supreme Court won’t review Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal, which cited Epstein agreement www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Minka (@minkab.bsky.social) 2025-10-06T14:35:08.693Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/ghislaine-maxwell-appeal-supreme-court-epstein-trump-rcna235391

The Supreme Court declined to review Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal, in a rejection that could keep the sex trafficker locked up for another decade if President Donald Trump doesn’t grant her clemency.....

The federal Bureau of Prisons lists Maxwell’s release date as July 17, 2037. The 63-year-old was moved to a minimum-security facility after she had an unusual meeting this summer with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (a former Trump personal lawyer), during which she said she never saw Trump do anything “inappropriate.” Her conviction followed Epstein’s 2019 death in custody while he was being held on his own related charges.

Monday’s denial comes amid political fallout from the Trump administration’s attempts to fend off intense backlash to its refusal to release all the information it has on the late disgraced financier.

The legal argument in Maxwell’s petition centered on Epstein’s notorious non-prosecution agreement in Florida that said, in part, that “the United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein.” She argued that the agreement should have applied to her New York case. The Trump Justice Department opposed high court review, arguing, among other things, that the agreement wasn’t intended to bind districts outside of Florida.

Maxwell had urged the justices to take her case not only to resolve her appeal but also to settle a split among the nation’s courts about how to interpret such agreements. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers backed her appeal, asking the justices to grant review and “resolve the split among the circuits and ensure that defendants and their counsel can rely on the promises made by the United States in its written agreements.”

PortTack

(35,762 posts)
8. Some good news!
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:09 AM
12 hrs ago

Last edited Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:57 AM - Edit history (1)

If she were to have her case overturned by SCROTUS, which taco and company were hoping for, the Epstein files would surely go away

Read in another post here that taco urged SCROTUS to not hear the case that he fears her talking if she’s free. I suppose. But I don’t see this as a win for him…certainly not a legal expert

Hugin

(36,927 posts)
9. Ah, there it is in the last paragraph posted....
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:27 AM
12 hrs ago
“Maxwell’s lawyers contended that a non-prosecution agreement reached in 2007 by federal prosecutors in Miami and Epstein’s lawyers also protected his “potential co-conspirators” from federal charges anywhere in the country.”

Proof that Trump really doesn’t give a s**t about Maxwell, he is only using her as a surrogate case to secure his own so-called non-prosecution based on the theory that there was some sort of blanket immunity in Epstein’s long s**tcanned sweetheart deal. Although, I don’t think Trump is smart enough to push this on his own. He does have the position to, however.

It also could explain why he doesn’t want to pardon her as that could be seen as an admission of guilt requiring anyone else charged in connection with Epstein’s crimes to also be pardoned on a case by case basis leaving Trump the last pedo standing. There wouldn’t be anyone left to pardon him.

FakeNoose

(38,877 posts)
15. That "presidential immunity" thing that SCOTUS invented just for Chump
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 02:00 PM
9 hrs ago

... he now has blanket immunity for everything he's ever done in his ENTIRE LIFE.
Isn't it funny how that works? Why aren't we laughing?

Hugin

(36,927 posts)
16. The Empty Loaf is currently undermining his court ordered "presidential immunity" by ignoring the courts.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 02:31 PM
8 hrs ago

Who's to say the next blowhard down the pike, who may not like Trump, won't do the same and ignore the courts.

Irony is dead with these chokes running things.

Hugin

(36,927 posts)
18. You keep asking me that.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 04:20 PM
7 hrs ago

I have no idea why this cockeyed administration does anything it does. Who exactly in the administration opposes the petition? They all speak with forked tongues, anyway. I don’t know, maybe they are trying to obscure their real desires or that’s what Trump’s gut said on some Thursday after a bad hamberder.

It’s all mis and disinformation.

Hugin

(36,927 posts)
20. Back when the whole Maxwell thing first broke out...
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 08:01 PM
3 hrs ago

It’s in my posts list over in GD.

It’s fine that you keep asking me things. It means that you’re paying attention to the situation.

What I am not fine with is that I fail to see the existence of any coherent Trump administration.

Everything points to an out of touch and mentally failing man child who has been installed as POTUS. Who only wants a Nobel Prize, to win the 2020 election, the Epstein case to disappear, and build a ludicrous throne room on the grounds of what was once the seat of the Executive Branch.

The rest of it is incompetent unfunny clowns doing whatever the f**k they want to try to keep in his demented graces and inflict as much pain on those they and he don’t like and want gone by any means necessary. Also, to keep the lumbering horror lurching along and the gravy train on their side of the tracks.

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