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US supreme court rejects Trump’s bid to appeal $5m E Jean Carroll verdict
E Jean Carroll arrives for her civil defamation trial against Donald Trump in New York City in January 2024. Photograph: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images View image in fullscreen E Jean Carroll arrives for her civil defamation trial against Donald Trump in New York City in January 2024. Photograph: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images US supreme court rejects Trump’s bid to appeal $5m E Jean Carroll verdict Jury found Trump liable in 2023 for sexually abusing former magazine columnist and defaming her US supreme court decisions – live updates The US supreme court declined on Monday to hear Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a $5m verdict in favor of E Jean Carroll in a case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing the former magazine columnist and then defaming her. The justices turned away the president’s appeal after a lower court upheld the 2023 jury verdict and rejected Trump’s arguments that the trial was unfair because the judge impermissibly let jurors hear evidence of his alleged past sexual misconduct. Trump has been battling Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, ever since she published an excerpt from her memoir in 2019 in which she alleged that Trump had raped her in around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan. Trump denied Carroll’s claims and asserted that she lied about the accusations both in 2019 while he was still serving his first term as president, and again in 2022 when he was out of office. skip past newsletter promotion after newsletter promotion More details soon … Explore more on these topics US supreme court E Jean Carroll Donald Trump US politics news Share Reuse this content
