US supreme court again rejects Trump’s bid to overturn E Jean Carroll verdict

In a recent ruling, the US Supreme Court has denied Donald Trump's bid to overturn a 2023 jury verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing journalist E Jean Carroll and defaming her. The court's decision, announced in an unsigned order on Monday, leaves the $5 million civil judgment against Trump intact. The court's order listed Trump's petition along with several others under "rehearings denied," without providing an explanation for their decision.

Roberta Kaplan, Carroll's attorney, expressed satisfaction with the Supreme Court's decision, stating that the jury's unanimous verdict finding Trump guilty of assault and defamation is now final and cannot be challenged in any court. In 2025, Trump had previously sought the Supreme Court's review of the case, but the court declined to hear his appeal in June.

Trump's legal team then asked the justices to reconsider, but the court's Monday decision left the $5 million judgment against Trump intact. The funds, totaling approximately $5.6 million, had been deposited into a court-held account following the 2023 verdict. In 2024, a three-judge panel at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan also upheld the jury's verdict.

The White House did not comment on the Supreme Court's decision. Additionally, a separate defamation lawsuit against Trump, in which he was ordered to pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages after a federal jury concluded he defamed her in 2019, is currently under appeal to the Supreme Court.