Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former lover and recruiter of underage females to his sex trafficking ring, has briefed her case at the Supreme Court, hoping the justices review her conviction during the 2025-26 term.

Maxwell argues that she should have been shielded from charges, which included sex trafficking of minors, based on a plea deal of Epstein’s in the Southern District of New York in 2020.

She was found guilty in 2021 and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.

The crux of her argument to the high court is that Epstein’s plea deal in 2007 in the Southern District of Florida protected four co-conspirators from prosecution — an unusual deal for the government to make.

Though the names are not listed in the filing, Maxwell is citing the plea language in hopes of having her conviction dismissed.

Epstein pleaded guilty at the time to prostitution activities in 2005 with an underage high school girl in Florida. He was later charged in the Southern District of New York, where he reportedly committed suicide while awaiting trial.

“This co-conspirator clause, containing no geographic limitation on where in the United States it could be enforced, was actively negotiated at the same time as the terms of Epstein’s protection for his own criminal prosecution, which was expressly limited to a bar on prosecutions in the Southern District of Florida only,” Maxwell’s petition read.

“A previous version of the co-conspirator language limited it to the Southern District of Florida before it was amended to refer more broadly to the ’United States,’ and the co-conspirator clause was relocated in the document.”

The Trump administration, meanwhile, told the high court not to take up her challenge.

“DOJ policy provided at that time — and similarly provides today — that ’no district or division shall make any agreement, including any agreement not to prosecute, which purports to bind any other district(s) or division without the express written approval of the United States Attorney(s) in each affected district and/or the Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division,’” wrote D. John Sauer, the U.S. solicitor general.

It would take four justices to vote in favor of hearing the case for oral arguments to be granted.

The dispute, Ghislaine Maxwell v. United States, is expected to be weighed by the justices during their private conference on Sept. 29.

The justices will return from their summer recess in October to begin the court’s 2025-26 term.

• Alex Swoyer can be reached at aswoyer@washingtontimes.com.