{"id":66828,"date":"2026-08-17T20:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/66828\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:32:17","slug":"supreme-court-again-rebuffs-trump-in-5m-carroll-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/66828\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump in $5M Carroll defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court<\/a> on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump\u2019s push to throw out<\/a> a jury\u2019s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll<\/a> at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.<\/p>\n

The Republican president\u2019s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their refusal to hear his appeal. The court denied Trump\u2019s petition along with several others.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unusual \u2014 although not unheard of \u2014 for the court to grant such requests. Trump paid<\/a> the judgment shortly after the court declined to take up his appeal in June. <\/p>\n

Trump and the Justice Department are also asking the high court to toss out a second Carroll verdict totaling $83 million<\/a>. They argue he\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n

Carroll is a longtime advice columnist and former TV talk show host. She testified at a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly 1990s encounter into a violent attack in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury retailer across the street from Trump Tower in Manhattan. The jury found Trump liable for defaming Carroll when he denied her allegation in 2022.<\/p>\n

Carroll\u2019s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said they were pleased by the Supreme Court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result, the jury\u2019s unanimous verdict that Donald Trump sexually assaulted and then defamed E. Jean Carroll is now final and cannot be challenged in any court,\u201d Kaplan said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Trump has denied any wrongdoing. <\/p>\n

The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.<\/p>\n

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Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-supreme-court<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump\u2019s push to throw out a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,1783,1790,38,13712,50,8,927,169,2635,2211,1256,2097,9,67,13713,1281,7,54,69],"class_list":["post-66828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-courts","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-e-jean-carroll","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-juries","tag-lawsuits","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-roberta-kaplan","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-top-stories","tag-u-s-news","tag-washington-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117112756323866041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}