US Supreme Court again refuses to overturn sexual assault verdict against Trump
The US Supreme Court has for a second time declined to hear President Donald Trump's challenge to a jury verdict finding him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. The court gave no explanation for its decision.
The US Supreme Court has once again declined to review a jury verdict finding President Donald Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. In July, Trump and the Justice Department had asked the court to overturn an $83 million (about €71 million) defamation award granted to Carroll.
Carroll testified twice before New York juries that Trump assaulted her in a department store dressing room in 1996. She first went public with the allegations in a 2019 memoir, and later sued him for defamation after he claimed she had invented the story to sell books, insisting he had never met her and that she "wasn't his type."
Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing. Last month, he paid Carroll $5.6 million (about €4.8 million) following a separate civil jury finding that he had sexually assaulted and defamed her.
This marks the second time Trump has petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn damages awarded to Carroll. As with the first attempt, the justices did not explain their reasoning for turning away the case.
