Trump Requests Supreme Court Overturn Verdict In E. Jean Carroll Sexual Abuse And Defamation Case

President Donald Trump asked nan Supreme Court connected Monday to reappraisal a $5 cardinal civilian judgement that recovered him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

A assemblage successful 2023 awarded nan judgement aft it recovered Trump liable of intersexual abuse, pursuing Carroll's allegations that Trump assaulted her successful nan dressing room of a Manhattan section shop successful 1996 and later defamed her during his first word by referring to her allegations arsenic a “hoax” and a “con job.”

“There were nary eyewitnesses, nary video evidence, and nary constabulary study aliases investigation,” Trump's lawyers wrote successful their filing to nan Supreme Court.

“Instead, Carroll waited much than 20 years to falsely impeach Donald Trump, who she politically opposes, until aft he became nan 45th president, erstwhile she could maximize governmental wounded to him and profit for herself,” nan filing added.

It is unclear whether nan precocious tribunal will return up nan civilian case.

CNN first reported connected Trump's tribunal filing.

A spokesperson for Trump's extracurricular ineligible squad said successful a connection connected nan filing, “The American People guidelines pinch President Trump arsenic they request an contiguous extremity to each of nan Witch Hunts, including nan Democrat-funded travesty of nan Carroll Hoaxes. President Trump will support winning against Liberal Lawfare, arsenic he continues to attraction connected his ngo to Make America Great Again.”

Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, declined to remark to NBC News past night.

A national appeals tribunal past twelvemonth upheld nan judgement aft Trump based on that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw nan case, had erred successful allowing grounds from 2 women — Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff — whose allegations of intersexual maltreatment Trump has denied.

A sheet of nan 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recovered successful December past twelvemonth that Kaplan had not “abused his discretion” by permitting their testimony.

Trump had besides asked nan appeals tribunal for a rehearing of nan lawsuit successful June, which was denied.

Trump has many times sought to person nan judgments successful Carroll's cases against him overturned. A abstracted entreaty that Trump revenge to overturn Carroll’s $83 cardinal defamation judgement past year, in a lawsuit tied to his defamatory comments astir her while president and aft nan $5 cardinal verdict, grounded successful September.