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

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, urged the Supreme Court on Monday to take up her pending appeal and overturn her sex-trafficking conviction, claiming she was covered by an agreement Epstein made with federal authorities that shielded her from prosecution.

"We are appealing not only to the Supreme Court but to the President himself," an attorney for the disgraced British socialite said.