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Deadline: Legal Blog-Ghislaine Maxwell files final brief to Supreme Court before justices consider review
It takes four justices to grant review of an appeal, but we won’t immediately know whether the high court will agree to review Maxwell’s.
Ghislaine Maxwell files final brief to Supreme Court before justices consider review.
— Raymond Norman (@raymondnorman.bsky.social) 2025-07-28T22:04:29.409Z
It takes four justices to grant review of an appeal, but we won’t immediately know whether the high court will agree to review Maxwell’s.
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/ghislaine-maxwell-supreme-court-appeal-brief-epstein-trump-rcna221567
While it remains to be seen whether and how the Trump administration tries to legally help Ghislaine Maxwell — such as by pardoning her or moving to reduce her 20-year prison sentence — the Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator is still pressing her case at the Supreme Court. On Monday, Maxwell filed her reply brief to the justices, making a final plea for them to consider her appeal.....
Maxwell’s court filing doesn’t refer to the unusual out-of-court developments like her meeting last week with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, one of Trump’s former personal lawyers. But her attorney, David Oscar Markus, made a direct appeal to Trump on Monday in connection with the reply brief. He said:
There isn’t a set date by which the court must decide whether to take up Maxwell’s appeal. But by the time the justices decide, the administration’s plans may have become clearer in terms of what sort of help, if any, it might want to give her. If it turns out the answer is that the government doesn’t want to help her at all, then this Supreme Court appeal could become all the more pivotal for her.
Maxwell’s court filing doesn’t refer to the unusual out-of-court developments like her meeting last week with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, one of Trump’s former personal lawyers. But her attorney, David Oscar Markus, made a direct appeal to Trump on Monday in connection with the reply brief. He said:
No one is above the law — not even the Southern District of New York. Our government made a deal, and it must honor it. The United States cannot promise immunity with one hand in Florida and prosecute with the other in New York. President Trump built his legacy in part on the power of a deal — and surely he would agree that when the United States gives its word, it must stand by it. We are appealing not only to the Supreme Court but to the President himself to recognize how profoundly unjust it is to scapegoat Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s crimes, especially when the government promised she would not be prosecuted.
There isn’t a set date by which the court must decide whether to take up Maxwell’s appeal. But by the time the justices decide, the administration’s plans may have become clearer in terms of what sort of help, if any, it might want to give her. If it turns out the answer is that the government doesn’t want to help her at all, then this Supreme Court appeal could become all the more pivotal for her.