WASHINGTON (TNND) — Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend and accomplice, asked the Supreme Court on Monday to consider her appeal and overturn her sex-trafficking conviction.

"This case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did," Maxwell's attorneys, Mona and David Oscar Markus, said in the new brief.

Markus claims Maxwell was covered by a Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA) made by Epstein in 2008, stating the U.S. "agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein."

However, Maxwell was not named as one of the suspects, and the New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2024 against Maxwell, stating the NPA with prosecutors in Florida did not apply to authorities in New York.

She was sentenced to a 20-year prison sentence in June 2022 by a New York judge for helping Epstein groom and sexually abuse underage girls.

"The government's argument, across the board, is essentially an appeal to what it wishes the agreement had said, rather than what it actually says," Mona Markus wrote in the petition.

Recently, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed Maxwell as the Department of Justice (DOJ) seeks to release grand jury transcripts from the case against the disgraced financier.

The meetings come after the DOJ refused to release additional records in the Epstein investigation and faced backlash for a July 6 memo concluding that Epstein killed himself in prison and didn't have a client list.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday, before heading to Scotland, that he hasn't thought about giving Maxwell a pardon or commutation.

“President Trump built his legacy in part on the power of a deal – and surely he would agree that when the United States gives its word, it must stand by it,” Maxwell’s attorney said in a statement. “We are appealing not only to the Supreme Court but to the president himself to recognize how profoundly unjust it is to scapegoat Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s crimes, especially when the government promised she would not be prosecuted.”