WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s unusual request to reconsider its earlier refusal to hear his appeal of a $5 million civil verdict won by writer E. Jean Carroll, effectively ending his remaining challenge in that case.
A New York jury found Trump liable in 2023 for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s and later defaming her when he denied her allegations. Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
The Supreme Court initially declined to hear Trump’s appeal in June. His attorneys then filed a petition asking the justices to rehear that decision, a rarely granted procedure. The court denied that request Monday without explanation.
Trump has already satisfied the judgment. The original $5 million award grew to roughly $5.8 million with interest before the money, which had been held in escrow, was released to Carroll last month.
The ruling does not end Trump’s separate legal fight with Carroll. Another jury awarded her $83.3 million in 2024 for defamatory statements Trump made in 2019 while serving his first term as president. Trump and the Justice Department have asked the Supreme Court to overturn that verdict, arguing that his comments fell within his official presidential duties and should be covered by federal immunity protections.
The justices have not yet decided whether they will hear that separate appeal.
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