{"id":7563,"date":"2026-06-29T16:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/us-supreme-court-rebuffs-trumps-appeal-in-e-jean-carroll-case\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:35:23","slug":"us-supreme-court-rebuffs-trumps-appeal-in-e-jean-carroll-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/us-supreme-court-rebuffs-trumps-appeal-in-e-jean-carroll-case\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court rebuffs Trump\u2019s appeal in E Jean Carroll case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>The US Supreme Court has rejected a push by President Trump to throw out a jury\u2019s findings of sexual assault.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The \u2060United States Supreme Court has declined to hear President Donald Trump\u2019s bid to overturn a $5 million <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/8\/us-court-upholds-sexual-assault-defamation-order-against-trump\">verdict\u00a0in favour of E Jean Carroll<\/a> in a case in which a jury found \u2060him liable for sexually abusing the former magazine columnist and then defaming her.<\/p>\n<p>The justices turned away Trump\u2019s appeal on Monday after a lower court upheld the 2023 jury verdict and rejected Trump\u2019s arguments that the trial was unfair because the \u2060judge impermissibly let jurors hear evidence of his alleged past sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/8\/us-court-upholds-sexual-assault-defamation-order-against-trump\">US court upholds sexual assault defamation order against Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/12\/30\/appeals-court-upholds-trump-sexual-abuse-defamation-liability-verdict\">Trump loses defamation liability appeal in E Jean Carroll case<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/1\/26\/trump-walks-out-of-court-during-closing-arguments-in-defamation-trial\">Donald Trump ordered to pay E Jean Carroll $83.3m for defamation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Trump has been battling Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, ever since she published an excerpt from her memoir in 2019 in which she alleged that Trump had raped her in 1996 in a department store dressing room in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>The case that led to the $5 million verdict concerned Trump\u2019s statements in 2022 when he called \u2060Carroll\u2019s claim a \u201choax\u201d and a \u201ccon job\u201d in a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis \u2060woman is not my type!\u201d Trump added in the post.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll sued Trump in federal court in Manhattan. Jurors in 2023 decided that Trump had sexually abused Carroll and defamed her, awarding $5 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers have argued that allegations leading to the verdict were propped up by \u201chighly inflammatory\u201d evidentiary rulings, including those that allowed the testimony of two other women who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060Manhattan-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdict in 2024, ruling that evidence established a \u201crepeated, idiosyncratic pattern of conduct\u201d consistent \u2060with Carroll\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers told the Supreme Court that the trial judge \u201cerroneously allowed testimony about multiple decades-old, unverified and unrelated allegations to be presented to the jury,\u201d flouting federal rules governing the admission of evidence in a case.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll\u2019s lawyers had urged the justices to pass on the case. They argued that the other women\u2019s testimonies were relevant because the allegations were similar and that Judge Lewis Kaplan\u2019s decisions were in line with those of other judges around the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court decision comes as it hands down opinions in the biggest cases of the term, many key to Trump\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>A jury also awarded Carroll an additional $83.3 million after a second trial for defamation when Trump first denied her claims in 2019. Trump is also appealing that ruling, though it is not yet before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court has rejected a push by President Trump to throw out a jury\u2019s findings of sexual assault. 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