Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Appeal in E Jean Carroll Case
Civil judgment of $5m against former president remains intact after latest legal challenge.
Callum Smith
The US Supreme Court has again declined to consider Donald Trump's appeal of a jury verdict.
The court announced its decision in an unsigned order on Monday, listing Donald Trump's petition under 'rehearings denied'. A three-judge court panel at the second US circuit court of appeals in Manhattan upheld the jury's verdict in 2024.
Donald Trump has already turned over $5 million in damages, plus interest, according to claims. E. Jean Carroll sued Donald Trump for attacking her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
The former president has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, arguing that the judge who oversaw the civil trial improperly allowed evidence that affected the jury's perceptions of him. Donald Trump branded the incident a hoax on social media and denied the claims, stating E. Jean Carroll was 'not my type' in a 2022 post on Truth Social.
Donald Trump's lawyers reportedly asked the justices to reconsider their previous denial and sought an injunction that would order E. Jean Carroll to return the payment. Donald Trump has been trying to claw back money that has already been paid out to E. Jean Carroll.
Donald Trump's lawyers also claimed E. Jean Carroll's legal team should not have let jurors see now infamous Access Hollywood footage from 2005, in which Donald Trump used crude language discussing groping and kissing women.
The Supreme Court held in 2024 that a sitting president has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for 'core constitutional powers' carried out while in office. Donald Trump vowed to continue battling what he termed the 'weaponisation and lawfare case' and the 'ridiculous' claim of defamation.
Donald Trump claimed this case is 'really against the United States of America, and all it stands for', adding that it 'should never be allowed to happen to another President, or Candidate to be'.