Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team moved forward with appealing her case to the Supreme Court on Monday, three days after the accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein met with a top Justice Department official. The convicted child sex trafficker’s team filed a new brief with the Supreme Court urging it to overturn her conviction.

The new filing responds to a Justice Department brief that argued the justices should leave Maxwell's criminal convictions in place.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys argue that she was covered by a Non-Prosecution Agreement made by Jeffrey Epstein in 2008, saying the U.S. “agrees that it will not institute any criminal