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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,470 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:30 PM Sep 2025

Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal is being considered at the Supreme Court. What to know

The Supreme Court is set to consider whether to take up Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal Sept. 29, offering the convicted sex trafficker the hope that she will get out of prison well before serving her full 20-year sentence.

Maxwell filed an appeal with the high court April 10, arguing that her conviction for sex trafficking a minor to financier Jeffrey Epstein should be thrown out. Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting minors for prostitution and died in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting a sex-trafficking trial.

Maxwell has been in the news lately because the Justice Department and members of Congress have turned to her for information about Epstein and any other potential criminal associates, after the Trump administration faced outrage in July for announcing it wouldn't release the government's files on Epstein.

The 63-year-old former British socialite gave two days of interviews in July in which she maintained her innocence and failed to provide any obvious leads for investigators. Still, she was moved to a cushier prison, upsetting Epstein and Maxwell accusers in particular, who said she didn't deserve preferential treatment in light of her crimes.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ghislaine-maxwells-appeal-being-considered-201157389.html

Throw away the key.

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Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal is being considered at the Supreme Court. What to know (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 OP
Maxwell is Either the Charlene Manson MrWowWow Sep 2025 #1
The rightys on the SCOTUS are going to let her out...they love the cut of her jib... wcmagumba Sep 2025 #2
The Supreme Court? Wednesdays Sep 2025 #3
Well, I suspect bamagal62 Sep 2025 #4
I am morbidly curious misanthrope Sep 2025 #5
"Throw away the key." UTUSN Sep 2025 #6

MrWowWow

(1,461 posts)
1. Maxwell is Either the Charlene Manson
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:34 PM
Sep 2025

of the trash💩mp-epstein global child sex trafficking crime syndicate or one of its lieutenants..

Wednesdays

(23,144 posts)
3. The Supreme Court?
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:41 PM
Sep 2025


I vaguely remember my college course in Constitutional Law, but IIRC, the Supreme Court is involved only if there's a Constitutional question in dispute.

misanthrope

(9,629 posts)
5. I am morbidly curious
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:38 PM
Sep 2025

I wonder what the national reaction would be if they interceded on Maxwell's behalf. I think the collective howl would be heard to the poles, not solely for the travesty of justice but also how bad it would look.

It would be a massive slap in the face to MAGAs who have felt their loyalty shaken by Trump's stonewalling Epstein file release. It would make them feel betrayed.

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