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#GhislaineMaxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in helping #JeffreyEpstein sexually #abuse underage women. She met last month with Deputy AG [& former #Trump personal attorney] #ToddBlanche in a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, & has been subpoenaed to testify before #Congress about #Epstein & is demanding #immunity in exchange. She was subsequently moved to a minimum-security facility in Texas.

#GhislaineMaxwell transferred to minimum-security prison camp in #Texas

Aug 1, 2025 4:07 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — "#JeffreyEpstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal case generates renewed public attention.

"The federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday that Maxwell had been transferred to Bryan, Texas, but did not explain the circumstances. Her attorney confirmed the move but also declined to discuss the reasons for it.

"Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She had been held at a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, until her transfer to the prison camp in Texas, where other inmates include #Theranos founder #ElizabethHolmes and #JenShah of 'The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.'

"Minimum-security federal prison camps house inmates the Bureau of Prisons considers to be the lowest security risk. Some don’t even have fences.

"The prison camps were originally designed with low security to make operations easier and to allow inmates tasked with performing work at the prison, like landscaping and maintenance, to avoid repeatedly checking in and out of a main prison facility.

"Maxwell’s case has been the subject of heightened public focus since an outcry over the Justice Department’s statement last month saying that it would not be releasing any additional documents from the Epstein sex trafficking investigation.

"Since then, administration officials have tried to cast themselves as promoting transparency in the case, including by requesting from courts the unsealing of grand jury transcripts.

"Maxwell was interviewed at a Florida courthouse over two days last week by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

"The House Oversight Committee has separately said that it wants to speak with Maxwell. Her lawyers said this week that she would be open to an interview but only if the panel were to give her #immunity from prosecution for anything she said."

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pbs.org/newshour/nation/ghisla

PBS News · Ghislaine Maxwell transferred to minimum-security prison camp in TexasThe federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday that Maxwell had been transferred to Bryan, Texas, but did not explain the circumstances. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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#House #Oversight Committee on Tuesday declined a request from #GhislaineMaxwell #lawyers to grant her #immunity in exchange for #testifying to #Congress.
Maxwell's lawyers said in a letter Tuesday that Maxwell, an associate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, would be willing to testify if she received formal immunity, alongside other requests. Otherwise, she would assert her #FifthAmendment rights and decline to testify, they said. #law #legal #testimony #coverup #trump #maga #democracy

US #House panel rejects #immunity request by Epstein associate Maxwell

A Republican-led congressional committee rejected on Tuesday a request by a longtime associate of the late convicted #SexOffender #JeffreyEpstein for immunity from future prosecution as a condition for testifying to the panel in the midst of a political storm surrounding #Trump.

#CoverUp #law #rape
reuters.com/legal/government/u

#DOJ AG #ToddBlanche [#trump personal lawyer] gave #convicted #sextrafficker #GhislaineMaxwell limited #immunity during the 9hr of questioning she underwent this week.The immunity allowed Maxwell, an associate and girlfriend of late #JeffreyEpstein, to answer questions without worrying that her responses could later be used against her or presumably any other person who may be implicated by her. abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-bl

ABC News · Ghislaine Maxwell received limited immunity during meetings with deputy attorney general: SourcesBy Aaron Katersky
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"Roberts’ opinion provides an open invitation for Trump to do exactly what he’s doing now.

Worse, it actually lays out a clear and easy-to-follow road map on how he can and should pursue it without risking his own hide—tap into the most essential powers of the presidency to protect himself, no matter how lawlessly those powers are wielded."

~ David Pepper

#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #immunity #RuleofLaw #corruption
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davidpepper.substack.com/p/rob

Pepperspectives · Roberts' Handy Roadmap for Illegal Cover-Ups: Trump, Epstein and the Immunity DecisionBy David Pepper
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"Without the immunity decision, Trump would probably still be dragging out his appeals in his multitude of criminal cases, and the rest of us would be living in a world where the federal government remains functional. Instead, Trump has taken full advantage of that immunity, not just to dodge his crimes, but to crown himself a king, above all laws. And thus far, the Court seems more than happy to help."

#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #immunity #RuleofLaw #corruption
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"Can you believe it has been over a year since the conservatives on the Supreme Court invented a very special immunity for a very special president?

It’s arguably the worst decision to come out of the Roberts Court, which is saying something. And it isn’t a reach to say that if there had been no immunity decision, there likely would be no Donald Trump second term."

~ Liz Needham

#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #immunity #RuleofLaw #corruption

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publicnotice.co/p/scotus-immun

Public Notice · SCOTUS's immunity ruling looks even worse nowBy Lisa Needham

The gangster, the thief, the felon, the con artist Donald "I like Nazis" Trump took the real trophy. Fuck him and fuck SCOTUS for giving the son of a bitch immunity of any kind because, to the Nazi faithful, he's immune from ALL prosecution.

Fuck you Nazis in robes for what you did to us.

Know your enemies.

aus.social/@Qldaah/11485427406

Aus.SocialDavid Marler (@Qldaah@aus.social)Donald Trump claims FIFA President Gianni Infantino told him to keep the Club World Cup trophy. Chelsea will receive a replica trophy after winning the tournament in New Jersey on Sunday. Trump stated the original is in the Oval Office. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/chelsea-replica-fifa-club-world-081954883.html
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"The ABA and the Times are wasting their time analyzing what Donald Trump is doing. A 'power grab' assumes that Trump is claiming or exercising powers he does not have. Trump isn’t grabbing power. He’s using powers that he has already taken."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #SupremeCourt #power #dictator #UnitaryExecutive #immunity
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luciantruscott.substack.com/p/

Lucian Truscott Newsletter · Boy, did we ever get it right with “No Kings”By Lucian K. Truscott IV
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"The bleak unifying principle of this Supreme Court term: It’s an emergency whenever Trump says so. ...

Aside from a few sporadic attempts to rein in Trump’s most lawless excesses, the court has largely given up policing the president’s power grabs."

~ Mark Joseph Stern

#Trump #SupremeCourt #power #dictator #UnitaryExecutive #immunity
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slate.com/news-and-politics/20

Slate · The Bleak Unifying Principle of This Supreme Court TermBy Mark Joseph Stern

The UK has a major new variant that could fuel a summer Covid wave

The #UK is well on its way to having a new dominant variant, fuelling concerns that a fresh #Covid wave could be just around the corner.

“Given that #immunity to Covid is waning in the population due to a decline in uptake of the spring #booster jab and the reduction of Covid #infections

inews.co.uk/news/science/new-c

The i Paper · The UK has a major new variant that could fuel a summer Covid waveThe new variant has quickly grown to account for more Covid infections than any other variant around at the moment in the UK

The MAGA era
— and the three latest Trump appointees to the Court
— has resulted in a new, gruesome project:
❌giving Trump whatever he wants.

🔥This toxic combination of bigotry and fealty has created a Court that uses all its might to attack the less powerful
while coddling those who already have it all — particularly Donald Trump.

It’s a Court with a very clear vision of who matters and who needs protection.

The majority opinion in "Trump v. CASA", the birthright citizenship case,
was honestly inevitable,
a culmination of all the ways in which the conservative justices have warped the Court in order to serve Trump.

Indeed, the Court’s previous term will go down in infamy as the one in which they gave Trump permission to do whatever he wants
by inventing sweeping #presidential #immunity.

One year later, Trump needed his reliable pals on the Supreme Court to step in on the #birthright #citizenship case
because four federal district courts and three federal appeals courts had enjoined him from implementing his executive order eliminating birthright citizenship.

That shouldn’t be a surprise, or even remotely controversial.

There’s simply no world where an executive order can undo the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship
-- and since the order was so obviously unconstitutional, the lower courts issued universal, or #nationwide, #injunctions to block the policy.

Those nationwide injunctions stopped Trump from stripping citizenship from babies,
even in states that were eager to let him do so.

Twenty conservative states filed an amicus brief urging the Court to let Trump’s executive order go into effect.

But the conservatives on the Court couldn't face grappling with whether Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional.

Indeed, they very much want you to know that the administration’s requests did not ask the Court to rule on the birthright citizenship issue at all. Heavens, no.

This is just about whether lower courts can issue universal, or nationwide, injunctions.

This is, to put it charitably,
⭐️a self-serving lie,
a way for the conservatives to soothe themselves,
to pretend they aren’t responsible for Trump turning the immense machinery of his immigration crackdown on literal babies.

No, all they did was strip the lower courts of the ability to issue universal injunctions.

Of course, once those injunctions are narrowed,
the administration is free to proceed on its plans to deprive babies of citizenship anywhere the narrower injunctions don’t apply
publicnotice.co/p/trump-casa-s

Public Notice · A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lowsBy Lisa Needham