The U.S. Department of Justice, now under President Donald Trump, has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction. In a brief signed by Solicitor General D. John Sauer, the government argued that the 2007 non-prosecution agreement negotiated with Jeffrey Epstein in Florida applied only to that district and to named co-conspirators, not to Maxwell, whose role was unknown to prosecutors at the time. Maxwell, 63, is serving a 20-year sentence handed down in 2021 after a federal jury found her guilty of conspiring with Epstein to recruit and abuse minors. Her lawyers contend the Epstein agreement shielded “any co-conspirator,” but the DOJ told the justices two lower courts have already rejected that reasoning and said her legal theory is “incorrect.” The new filing has rekindled public scrutiny of Epstein’s connections to prominent figures including Trump and former President Bill Clinton. Separate FBI interviews show Maxwell denying that Clinton ever visited Epstein’s island or that she saw a widely reported painting of the former president in Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse. A recent YouGov survey taken on July 28 found 84 % of Americans believe Epstein was guilty of most charges, while 69 % think the government is withholding information about the case.