The Supreme Court on Monday declined President Donald Trump’s request to reconsider its June refusal to hear his challenge to the $5 million civil judgment awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation.
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to overturn the $5 million civil verdict awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll, marking the second time the justices have declined to intervene in the case.
Trump had asked the court to reconsider its June decision declining to hear his initial appeal of the jury verdict.
Requests for the Supreme Court to reconsider a denial are rarely granted, and the justices declined Trump’s latest petition without taking up the underlying dispute, NBC News reported.
The case stems from Carroll’s allegations that Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan during the mid-1990s and later defamed her when he denied the accusation.
A jury ultimately awarded Carroll $5 million after finding Trump liable in the civil case for sexual abuse and defamation.
Trump has consistently denied Carroll’s allegations.
Carroll, a longtime advice columnist, first made the accusation publicly in 2019, when an excerpt from her memoir describing the alleged encounter appeared in New York Magazine.
Trump responded by denying the allegation, saying he had never assaulted Carroll and characterizing her claim as a “hoax” and politically motivated.
Carroll subsequently brought two civil lawsuits against him.
The $5 million judgment at issue in Monday’s Supreme Court action has already been paid by Trump, along with interest.
Trump had deposited the money into an escrow account while his appeals remained pending rather than immediately transferring it to Carroll.
After the Supreme Court declined in June to hear Trump’s first appeal, Carroll’s attorneys asked that the funds be released.
A judge ruled in July that Carroll could receive the $5 million award together with accumulated interest, clearing the way for the money held in escrow to be disbursed.
Trump then sought reconsideration from the Supreme Court, asking the justices to revisit their earlier refusal to take up the case.
Monday’s denial leaves the underlying jury verdict intact and ends that latest effort to obtain Supreme Court review.
The ruling does not represent a new examination of the evidence presented at trial. Rather, the court declined to reconsider its earlier decision not to hear Trump’s appeal.
With the $5 million judgment already paid and the Supreme Court twice declining to intervene, the civil verdict in Carroll’s favor remains in place.
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