Even as top Justice Department officials brokered an interview with a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein’s, they asked the Supreme Court to reject her appeal.

Donald Trump seems to hope that this latest chapter of the Jeffrey Epstein saga goes away.But putting aside the fact that he just filed a lawsuit effectively highlighting his relationship with the late disgraced financier,

The Department of Justice on Monday urged the Supreme Court to turn away an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, the former associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring with and aiding Epstein in his sexual abuse of underage girls.