{"id":323188,"date":"2026-08-17T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323188\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:46:17","slug":"us-supreme-court-again-rebuffs-trump-in-5-million-e-jean-carroll-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323188\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump in $5 million E. Jean Carroll case"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court rebuffed President Trump\u2019s request Monday to reconsider its refusal to hear his appeal of a $5 million award to writer E. Jean Carroll in connection with her civil suit accusing Trump of sexual abuse and defamation.<\/p>\n

The justices almost never grant such rehearing requests and Trump, 80, paid $5.63 million \u2014 the judgment amount, plus interest \u2014 soon after the court initially declined to hear his appeal in June.<\/p>\n

The high court is also weighing Trump\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Writer E. Jean Carroll leaves the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, September 6, 2024, in Manhattan, New York. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s lawyers in that appeal argue that presidential immunity shields him from Carroll\u2019s claims and that lower courts wrongly decided that he had forfeited that defense.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s team argues the issue of official immunity from the $83.3 million\u00a0award \u2014 a matter the justices still could decide to take up \u2014 impacts \u2060the other verdict as well.<\/p>\n

The court is not expected to act on that appeal until later this year.<\/p>\n

Trump has been battling Carroll<\/a>, 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 a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan around 1996.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0U.S. Supreme Court\u00a0declined on Monday to hear his appeal \u200cof a $5 million verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing AP Photo\/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez<\/p>\n

Trump denied Carroll\u2019s \u200cclaims \u2060and asserted that she lied both in 2019 and again in 2022, while he was out of office. AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson<\/p>\n

The president has denied the allegations \u2014 at one point insisting that Carroll was \u201cnot my type\u201d \u2014 and contended the suits were decided by unfair juries.<\/p>\n

The case that led to the $5 million verdict concerned Trump\u2019s statements in 2022, when he called Carroll\u2019s claim a \u201choax\u201d and a \u201ccon job\u201d in a post on social media.<\/p>\n

Jurors in that case decided in 2023 that Trump had sexually abused Carroll and defamed her, but \u2060did not find that Trump raped Carroll, as she had claimed.<\/p>\n

Writer E. Jean Carroll leaves the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, New York, Friday, September 6, 2024. REUTERS<\/p>\n

In a landmark 2024 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that former presidents have full immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken in office that were within their core constitutional powers as president.<\/p>\n

The Carroll cases are civil lawsuits.<\/p>\n

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