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SCOTUS denies Ghislaine Maxwell's release (Original Post) spooky3 Oct 2025 OP
They got something right. nt mcar Oct 2025 #1
He is going to pardon her at the end of his term Jersey Devil Oct 2025 #2
Unless he dies first moonscape Oct 2025 #5
Or she does, which is more likely, in my opinion. She should be worried, to be honest. mucholderthandirt Oct 2025 #17
Yup! PortTack Oct 2025 #19
Good point! moonscape Oct 2025 #24
I am very surprised by this Bettie Oct 2025 #3
I'm not. GoCubsGo Oct 2025 #6
Point taken Bettie Oct 2025 #18
Yep. Plus this has nothing to to with any other element of their agenda Raven123 Oct 2025 #22
Release the files instead Blues Heron Oct 2025 #4
"Maxwell's Silver Slammer" came down upon her head! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Oct 2025 #7
Trump won: "Trump's Republican administration had urged the high court to stay out of the case." sop Oct 2025 #8
And additionally one district can't direct another n/t off-the-clock Oct 2025 #10
JMO. If she were pardoned on some technicality the rt and taco would all be claiming the whole thing was a fantasy PortTack Oct 2025 #20
So OUR DOJ was trying to get her conviction overturned on behalf of the felon? spanone Oct 2025 #9
No, the DOJ opposed her petition. onenote Oct 2025 #14
"Unless" is doing a lot of work here... NM Grins Oct 2025 #11
Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while surfered Oct 2025 #12
Or,even a stopped clock is right ,twice a day. BattleRow Oct 2025 #16
"Shhh....we don't want to wake those dormant files" Clouds Passing Oct 2025 #13
I hope she starts dropping names ChicagoTeamster Oct 2025 #15
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Gimpyknee Oct 2025 #21
They didn't deny her release. Ms. Toad Oct 2025 #23

mucholderthandirt

(1,753 posts)
17. Or she does, which is more likely, in my opinion. She should be worried, to be honest.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:17 AM
Oct 2025

Not about any of us, but about Trump and how much better it would be for him if she's gone. If she has any brains, she'd have a failsafe, that would release the files upon her death unless she dies a free woman of old age in her own bed. And heck, even then.

GoCubsGo

(34,676 posts)
6. I'm not.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:02 AM
Oct 2025

They're afraid that releasing her will turn the spotlight back on the sexual predators in their own ranks.

Bettie

(19,296 posts)
18. Point taken
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:20 AM
Oct 2025

that makes sense.

I generally expect them to do whatever that orange thing tells them to.

sop

(17,488 posts)
8. Trump won: "Trump's Republican administration had urged the high court to stay out of the case."
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:05 AM
Oct 2025

"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."

"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."

https://abc7.com/post/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-ghislaine-maxwell-imprisoned-former-girlfriend-jeffrey-epstein/17950093/

This turned out well for Trump. It keeps Maxwell "in prison," still hoping for a pardon. The last thing Trump wanted was Ghislaine free to make statements that would incriminate him.

PortTack

(35,815 posts)
20. JMO. If she were pardoned on some technicality the rt and taco would all be claiming the whole thing was a fantasy
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 10:45 AM
Oct 2025

just made up…yes more so than now, and bury the files

spanone

(141,042 posts)
9. So OUR DOJ was trying to get her conviction overturned on behalf of the felon?
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:06 AM
Oct 2025

Tellls America all they should need to know.

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