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The US supreme court on Monday declined Donald Trump’s request to review a New York jury’s 2023 verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing writer E Jean Carroll, and then defaming her.
The justices did not provide an explanation or reasoning, and no public dissents were noted. The decision leaves intact the $5m civil judgment against Trump that was returned by the jury after the two-week trial in 2023.
The supreme court’s decision comes after a three-judge court panel at the second US circuit court of appeals in Manhattan upheld the jury’s verdict in 2024, and rejected Trump’s arguments that the trial was unfair because the judge let jurors hear evidence of his alleged past sexual misconduct.
Trump reacted to the supreme court’s decision by writing on Truth Social: “Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to ‘review’ a Fake Case brought against me.”
Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney, also issued a statement in response to the decision.
“Today’s supreme court decision affirms once and for all the jury’s unanimous verdict that President Donald J Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E Jean Carroll,” Kaplan said. “His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today’s ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions.”
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