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Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to overturn $5M verdict in E. Jean Carroll case
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's second request to overturn a jury's $5 million civil judgment finding him liable for assaulting and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump had already paid the $5 million plus interest last month, shortly after the court initially turned away his appeal. The court formally declined his long-shot reconsideration request without stated reasoning or noted dissents. Trump's legal team characterized the case as a 'Democrat-funded travesty' and a 'witch hunt,' while Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan stated the unanimous verdict is now final and cannot be challenged in any court. Trump still has a separate appeal pending before the Supreme Court regarding an $83 million judgment in another Carroll case, which the justices are not expected to consider until late September at the earliest.
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What Happened
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s second request to overturn a jury’s $5 million civil judgment finding that he assaulted and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll.
According to The New York Times, Trump paid Carroll the $5 million plus interest last month, “a few days after the court initially turned away” his appeal. The court on Monday “formally declined” his “long-shot request to the justices that they reconsider.” The decision was issued without stated reasoning and without noted dissents.
Who Said What
Trump’s legal team said in a statement that the American people “demand an immediate end to all of the witch hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll hoaxes.” Trump, they added, will “keep winning against liberal lawfare.”
In response, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said after the ruling: “The jury’s unanimous verdict that Donald Trump sexually assaulted and then defamed E. Jean Carroll is now final and cannot be challenged in any court.”
What Next?
Trump’s appeal of a separate $83 million judgment in favor of Carroll is “pending at the Supreme Court,” according to CNN. The Times reported that the “justices are on summer recess” and are “not expected to consider whether to take up that case until late September at the earliest.”
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Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Appeal, Finalizes $5 Million Carroll Verdict