Supreme Court rejects final Trump appeal of $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict

The US Supreme Court has declined to reconsider its denial to review a 2022 defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump. The case, which resulted in a $5 million verdict against Trump, found that he had sexually abused Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.

According to Axios, Trump’s lawyers had petitioned the court to reconsider its earlier refusal to hear the appeal, but the justices did not provide a reason for their decision. The Associated Press reported that Trump had already paid the judgment shortly after the court declined to take up his appeal in June.

Trump and the Justice Department are also seeking to overturn a second Carroll verdict, totaling $83 million, arguing that he is immune from being sued over comments he made about her in 2019, when he was president. The court has not yet acted on that appeal.

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