Supreme Court rejects Trump's renewed appeal in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit

The Supreme Court denied a long-shot effort by President Donald Trump to review the $5 million civil judgment finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

The high court denied Trump's bid for a rehearing in an orders list published on Monday, declining to elaborate on the decision not to take up the case for arguments. The Supreme Court initially denied Trump's appeal at the end of June, but the president's lawyers filed a petition for rehearing, a long-shot bid to get the high court to rethink its decision, which was also denied on Monday.

The $5 million judgment that Trump had hoped the Supreme Court would review was one of two defamation lawsuits filed against the president by Carroll over his statements denying that he sexually assaulted her. In this case, a jury found Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s and defaming her in 2022 by denying the accusation. The jury did not find Trump liable for rape. Trump has denied Carroll's accusations, maintaining that the encounter never happened. Carroll was unable to remember the year that the alleged assault took place, nor did she produce any physical evidence.