The Supreme Court Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn a jury’s finding that he sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll in a New York City department store in the mid‑1990s and later defamed her.
The Court declined to hear the case in a brief, unexplained order, as is customary, with no dissents recorded.
Trump’s attorneys contended that the $5 million verdict was based on “highly inflammatory” evidentiary decisions, including rulings that permitted testimony from two other women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct decades earlier.
Trump continues to deny all three women’s allegations.
Trump’s lawyers claimed the judge violated federal evidence rules in the case and portrayed the dispute as a distraction from the president’s unique duties, even though the verdict predated his return to the White House.
“This mistreatment of a President cannot be allowed to stand,” Attorney Justin D. Smith wrote in court filings.
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