Trump asks Supreme Court to throw out E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million win against him
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump He’s making his last shot to topple $5 million jury award ordered to pay In 2023, after being found liable for sexual harassment and defamation of author E. Jean Carroll.
Trump asks Supreme Court A spokesman for the legal team said it wanted to review the decision, which was approved by the appeals court on November 11.
A spokesman for Trump’s legal team repeated his claim that this was part of Democrats’ witch hunt against the president and “Liberal Laws” against him.
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The 314-page dossier alleges that Carroll waited more than 20 years to voice her accusations after Trump became president. The filing also alleges that the allegations match the plot of one of his favorite television shows, “Law & Order.”
“President Trump has publicly and consistently denied that this alleged incident ever occurred. The filing states that no physical or DNA evidence supports Carroll’s story. “There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation.”
What had the federal appeals court previously ruled?
The appeals court rejected Trump’s claim that the trial judge made procedural errors, ruling that Trump “does not bear the burden of showing that any alleged error or combination of alleged errors affected his substantive rights necessary to warrant a new trial.”
“Furthermore, he has not met his burden of showing that any alleged errors or combination of alleged errors affected his substantial rights necessary to warrant a new trial.”
In September, a different panel of judges on the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an $83.3 million jury award to Trump for comments disputing the veracity of Carroll’s claims.
The appeals court backed the jury’s verdict that Trump would not stop slandering Carroll unless he received a significant financial penalty.
The court also rejected Trump’s claim that he could not be sued because of the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision that presidents have at least a presumption of immunity for official actions they take while in office.
E. Jean Carroll leaves the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in New York City on January 25, 2024, following the conclusion of that day’s proceedings in the defamation case against Donald Trump. Carroll is suing Donald Trump for attacking her character and credibility after accusing her of sexual assault.
What did E. Jean Carroll claim in her lawsuits?
Carroll said in 2019 that Trump sexually assaulted her at a New York City store in 1996, and Trump responded with allegations that he made up the story to sell his book.
Carroll sued him months later and won an $83.3 million verdict.
Trump repeated this denial in a social media post in 2022, when he was not president and the first trial was ongoing. Carroll later sued Trump again under a special statute of limitations that New York grants to victims of sexual abuse, and in 2023 a jury found Trump liable for the sexual abuse of Carroll. This resulted in a $5 million verdict.
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