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.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with convicted Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell for two days of meetings where she was granted limited immunity by the DOJ. New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker,

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has theorized that House Republicans declared an early summer recess not only to avoid voting on the Epstein files, but also to give President Donald Trump time to prepare documents to pardon Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

President Trump, asked whether he would consider pardoning her, said, “I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I haven’t thought about.”