Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump in $5M E. Jean Carroll case

Rebuffing President Donald Trump ​for a second time, the U.S.Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear his appeal ‌of a $5 million verdict in favor of E.

Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine columnist.The justices rejected Trump’s request to reconsider their previous decision in June denying his appeal of ​the 2023 jury verdict stemming from allegations that he raped her in the 1990s in ​a Manhattan department store’s dressing room.Trump’s lawyers contend that the trial was unfair.The ⁠Supreme Court is also weighing the Republican president’s appeal of a separate $83.3 million jury verdict for ​defaming Carroll in 2019 during his first term as president, when he denied the claims and asserted that ​she lied about the accusations.

Trump’s lawyers in that appeal argue that presidential immunity shields him from Carroll’s claims and that lower courts wrongly decided that he had forfeited that defense.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 around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.Trump denied Carroll’s ‌claims ⁠and asserted that she lied both in 2019 and again in 2022, while he was out of office.The case that led to the $5 million verdict concerned Trump’s statements in 2022 when he called Carroll’s claim a “hoax” and a “con job” in a post on social media.Jurors in that case decided in 2023 that ​Trump had sexually abused Carroll ​and defamed her, but ⁠did not find that Trump raped Carroll, as she had claimed.Following the Supreme Court’s denial in June of Trump’s appeal in the case, Carroll collected nearly $5.63 million ​from Trump.The payout represents the original $5 million civil verdict, plus interest.In ​Trump’s request for ⁠rehearing, his lawyers s...