Supreme Court Again Rejects Trump’s Appeal of $5 Million E. Jean Carroll Payment
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The court declined President Trump’s long-shot request that it reconsider his appeal. He has separately asked the court to overturn a much larger 2024 award.
Listen · 3:30 min Share full article E. Jean Carroll outside the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2024. A federal jury in New York has found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Ms. Carroll. Credit... Adam Gray/Reuters By Ann E. Marimow
The announcement on Monday did not include the justices’ reasons, which is typical when the court issues routine orders. There were no noted dissents.
Mr. Trump paid Ms. Carroll in July , a few days after the court initially turned away the president’s appeal. He also made a long-shot request to the justices that they reconsider, which the court formally declined on Monday.
The president has separately asked the Supreme Court to overturn a much larger award of $83.3 million that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming Ms. Carroll in 2019, after she accused him of a decades-old rape. The justices are on summer recess and not expected to consider whether to take up that case until late September at the earliest.
The request the justices dispatched on Monday was always a long shot, since they rarely reconsider when asked. Still, it was another in a series of blows to the president’s efforts to contest Ms. Carroll’s claims and avoid the two separate monetary awards that juries have ordered him to pay related to Ms. Carroll’s allegations.
In a statement, Mr. Trump’s legal team said: “The American people stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the witch hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll hoaxes. President Trump will keep winning against liberal lawfare, as he continues to focus on his mission to make America great again.”
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