The U.S. Supreme Court should hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2021 sex trafficking conviction, her lawyers argued in a brief to the Supreme Court Monday.

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.