{"id":102938,"date":"2025-11-12T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=102938"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:30:00","slug":"trump-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-e-jean-carroll-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=102938","title":{"rendered":"Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn E Jean Carroll verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump is asking the US Supreme Court to review the $5m (\u00a33.6m) civil case that found he defamed and sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll.<\/p>\n

He has repeatedly claimed that the judge who oversaw the civil trial, Lewis Kaplan, improperly allowed evidence to be presented that hurt how the jury viewed Trump.<\/p>\n

A federal appeals court agreed with the jury\u2019s verdict last year and said Kaplan did not make errors that would warrant a new trial.<\/p>\n

A New York jury awarded Ms Carroll damages over her civil claim that Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, and then branded the incident a hoax on social media. He denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court is now Trump\u2019s last hope of overturning the unanimous jury\u2019s verdict. Whether the top US court will take the case up is unclear.<\/p>\n

A federal appeals court declined to rehear Trump\u2019s challenge to it in June.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s comments about the jury\u2019s findings in the case led a separate jury to order him to pay Ms Carroll $83m for defaming her. A panel of federal judges denied his appeal of that decision in September, and Trump has now taken the next step in trying to have it overturned by asking the full bench of judges at a federal appeals court to review the case.<\/p>\n

In the petition to the Supreme Court, Trump\u2019s lawyers argued Kaplan should not have let jurors see the 2005 Access Hollywood tape that showed the president saying he groped and kissed women.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation,\u201d they wrote about Ms Carroll\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead, Carroll waited more than 20 years to falsely accuse Donald Trump, who she politically opposes, until after he became the 45th president, when she could maximize political injury to him and profit for herself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberta Kaplan, Ms Carroll\u2019s attorney, told the BBC she had no comment on the Supreme Court appeal.<\/p>\n

While Trump was found to have defamed and sexually abused Ms Carroll, the jury rejected her claim of rape as defined in New York\u2019s penal code.<\/p>\n

Ms Carroll, a former magazine columnist who is now 81, sued Trump for attacking her in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room in Manhattan. The defamation stemmed from Trump\u2019s post on his Truth Social platform in 2022 denying her claim.<\/p>\n

Trump has said Ms Carroll was \u201cnot my type\u201d and that she lied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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