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40. Yes, what she wants is the Court to find that she shouldn't have been prosecuted

Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:38 PM

Jul 31

under the terms of the non-prosecution agreement between the Florida US Attorney's Office and Epstein.

To get to that point, she first has to convince four of the justices to grant certiorari to hear her argument. If they deny cert, game over. If they grant it, they'll set a briefing schedule and oral argument and at some point, possibly in late 2025 but more likely in 2026, they'll decide the merits of her argument. The fact that they granted cert -- if that's what they do -- doesn't necessarily mean they will reverse the court of appeals. Cases in which cert has been granted sometimes end up in the appeals court decision being affirmed.

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I just read the most corrupt Supreme Court in US history is going to meet to decide whether or not [View all] Eliot Rosewater Jul 30 OP

Trumplandia is here. NoMoreRepugs Jul 30 #1

This could be the way they'd B.See Jul 30 #2

If they let her go Diraven Jul 30 #3

Small consolation it may be, but every one of the SOBs who work to free Maxwell become permanent blackmail targets 0rganism Jul 30 #4

We're never getting it back either, even if Trump and Vance and Johnson all have heart attacks tomorrow Eliot Rosewater Jul 30 #5

Call me Pollyanna Mossfern Jul 30 #6

No, It's NOT Over DET Jul 31 #10

I hear you, my comments are based in my anger Eliot Rosewater Jul 31 #15

Post removed Post removed Jul 31 #22

Pence? milestogo Jul 31 #25

Sorry about that, sometimes I get the two scumbags mixed up Eliot Rosewater Jul 31 #30

Better just give up on caring about anything now. mahina Jul 31 #33

The most perverse part about this round about way it's being done... Hugin Jul 30 #7

So why did the Trump administration oppose Maxwell's petition for certiorari? onenote Jul 31 #20

Because, that would include a review... Hugin Jul 31 #24

Nope. onenote Jul 31 #32

All of this made possible by the malignant tumor in DC known as the Heritage Foundation. Initech Jul 31 #8

Yes and they were sitting there licking their chops in 2016 Eliot Rosewater Jul 31 #16

And now look at the damage they're doing, turning the United States into a dictatorship. Initech Jul 31 #18

So the answer to erosion of democracy TheProle Jul 31 #29

What can we do then? Initech Jul 31 #36

Liberating Maxwell might be enough to Ilsa Jul 31 #9

Never, they're as loyal as they are stupid. dem4decades Jul 31 #26

I think this is just normal procedure. She appealed Melon Jul 31 #11

And from what I've be unable to easily avoid seeing ... Igel Jul 31 #13

How rude to interrupt the apocalyptic sky-is-falling fantasy with facts! tritsofme Jul 31 #17

+1 onenote Jul 31 #21

Criminal appeals to the Supreme Court are not "normal procedure" . . . markpkessinger Jul 31 #35

But normal in that it's within their rights to appeal. Melon Jul 31 #37

They won't help her. That would steal drumpf's leverage over her JoseBalow Jul 31 #12

The STOP reciting the Pledge of Allegiance if that happens. ProudMNDemocrat Jul 31 #14

That is a distortion of what the Court is scheduled to do onenote Jul 31 #19

It would be nice to offer your opinion, gab13by13 Jul 31 #28

My opinion, which isn't worth much since I'm not a member of the Supreme Court onenote Jul 31 #34

Sigh Eliot Rosewater Jul 31 #23

Yes, what she wants is the Court to find that she shouldn't have been prosecuted onenote Jul 31 #40

Likely a decision via Shadow Docket no_hypocrisy Jul 31 #27

I find it amazing at this late date so many haven't caught on that the Trumpists... Hugin Jul 31 #31

100 percent not a shadow docket case onenote Jul 31 #39

No. It ML's a routine petition for certiorari. Ms. Toad Jul 31 #41

She has filled a routine petition for certiorari bc, Ms. Toad Jul 31 #38

K&R UTUSN Jul 31 #42

And now this Eliot Rosewater Aug 1 #43