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.

Donald Trump seems to hope that this latest chapter of the Jeffrey Epstein saga goes away.But putting aside the fact that he just filed a lawsuit effectively highlighting his relationship with the late disgraced financier,

The justices, now on their summer recess, are expected in late September to consider whether to take up her appeal.