WASHINGTON (AURN News) — The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt another blow to President Donald Trump’s legal challenge against author E. Jean Carroll.
The justices rejected Trump’s last-ditch request to reconsider the case, effectively closing the door on the $5 million judgment.
The high court’s decision leaves a 2023 jury verdict intact. Jurors found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s and later defaming her.
The ruling solidifies the $5 million judgment, which Trump has already paid into a court account along with accumulated interest.
Trump is still waiting on the Supreme Court in a much larger legal battle. The justices have yet to rule on his separate appeal involving an $83 million defamation judgment Carroll won in a follow-up trial.
For now, the $5 million verdict stands.
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