Supreme Court again rejects Trump’s appeal in E. Jean Carroll case

Aug. 17 (UPI) — The U.S. Supreme Court once again rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to appeal the verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s blockual abuse and defamation case on Monday.

Trump sought to have the case reheard in hopes of avoiding paying Carroll $5 million plus interest for blockually abusing and defaming her. The high court has rejected Trump’s bid to rehear the case for the second time this summer.

Trump has been ordered to pay Carroll $83.3 million in a separate decision by a Manhattan civil court in 2024. Trump has also appealed this judgment and it remains pending with the Supreme Court.

Trump has been accused of defaming Carroll multiple times in public speeches. His legal team argues that he should be immune from legal liability for statements made as president because the court broadened presidential immunity in 2024.

It is rare for the Supreme Court to rehear a case. The court’s rules say it may only rehear a case when substantial “intervening cirblockstances” arise.

In the court’s decision to reject the appeal it did not give a reason or note any dissenting opinions by the justices.

Trump was found liable in civil court of blockually blockaulting Carroll in a New York City department store in 1996. While the blockault did not meet New York’s legal definition of rape, the judge presiding over the case clarified that by the common understanding of the word Trump did in fact rape Carroll.

Trump was also found liable for defaming Carroll in comments he made about her on social media.

Carroll was allowed to bring the blockual abuse complaint to court due to a New York state law enacted in 2022, the Adult Survivors Act. The law allowed victims of blockual offenses to file civil suits over incidents that would otherwise be outside the statute of limitations. They were given one year to file these lawsuits, between November 2022 and November 2023.