Supreme Court Declines to Rehear Trump's Defamation Appeal Against Carroll, Funds Transfer

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Supreme Court Declines to Rehear Trump's Defamation Appeal Against Carroll, Funds Transfer
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  1. The Supreme Court in June declined to take Trump’s appeal regarding Carroll’s first defamation lawsuit against him, for which she was awarded $5 million. Those funds were then transferred to Carroll’s law firm.

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    The Guardian US

    The US supreme court has once again declined to consider Donald Trump’s appeal of a jury verdict in 2023 that found him liable for sexually abusing writer E Jean Carroll, and later defaming her.

    Washington Times

    The Supreme Court on Monday again rejected President Trump’s request to review a $5 million judgment in New York writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against him.

    NBC News

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined for a second time to take up President Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a jury verdict that awarded $5 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for alleged sexual abuse and defamation.

    BBC News

    Published For a second time, the US Supreme Court has declined President Donald Trump's bid to overturn a federal civil jury verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E Jean Carroll.

    PBS NewsHour

    Supreme Court again denies Trump's push to toss out $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case Trump and the Justice Department are also asking the high court to toss out a second Carroll verdict totaling $83 million.

    New York Times

    Supreme Court Again Rejects Trump’s Appeal of $5 Million E. Jean Carroll Payment The court declined President Trump’s long-shot request that it reconsider his appeal. He has separately asked the court to overturn a much larger 2024 award.

    ABC News

    Carroll has received the money in the 2022 case, her representatives said. The Supreme Court on Monday declined President Donald Trump's attorneys' petition for a rehearing of its denial to review E. Jean Carroll's 2022 defamation case.

  2. The court's decision was posted as part of an order list on Monday, but offered no explanation for why the justices declined to rehear the case.

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    The Guardian US

    The court announced the decision in an unsigned order on Monday, without providing an explanation of their decision. The order just listed the US president’s petition, along with several other petitions, under “rehearings denied”.

  3. In its application to SCOTUS, the Justice Department characterized Leon’s injunction as “extraordinary and unlawful,” and argued that the project (“integrated military complex”) “is vitally required by national security.” The agency further contended that, if permitted to take effect, the Bush appointee’s injunction “would wrongfully install a single district judge as sole arbiter of what further construction is ‘strictly necessary’ to protect the safety of the President, his family, staff members, and visitors to the White House, including foreign dignitaries, and presidents and prime ministers of other countries.”

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  1. 01 The Guardian US

    The decision on Monday leaves intact the $5m civil judgment against Trump, that was returned by the jury after the two-week trial in 2023.

  2. 02 ABC News

    This is the case in which Carroll was awarded $5 million, which the writer's representatives said was paid in July. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

  3. 03 Washington Examiner

    A federal appeals court grilled the Justice Department on Monday over its assertion that two Rwandan nationals may not challenge the revocation of their refugee status in court.

  4. 04 BBC News

    "We are pleased that the United States Supreme Court has declined again to hear this case," Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement following the decision.

  5. 05 Breitbart

    The order on Monday comes after the Supreme Court declined to take up the president’s argument in June, per the Hill:

  6. 06 Washington Times

    In his filing, Mr. Trump said that the lower court improperly relied on statements he made against her accusation in 2019 when he was serving in his first term, citing presidential immunity.

  7. 07 The Federalist

    The Trump Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift a lower court blockade on construction of the new White House ballroom.

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