Washington, D.C. – The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear President Donald Trump’s appeal of a $5 million civil verdict in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit, leaving the judgment intact.
A New York jury found in 2023 that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the mid-1990s and defamed her in a 2022 social media post denying her allegation. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages.
Trump has denied wrongdoing and argued that Carroll’s claims were false and politically motivated. His attorneys asked the Supreme Court to review the case after the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdict.
The justices rejected the appeal without taking up the case, meaning the lower-court ruling stands.
The decision marks another legal setback for Trump in Carroll’s long-running litigation. Carroll separately won an $83.3 million defamation verdict over Trump’s 2019 denials, though that case has followed a separate appeals track.
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