Supreme Court Rejects Trump Appeal in E. Jean Carroll Sexual Abuse Case—Again

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Jean Carroll attends the Make Equality Reality Gala in New York on Oct.

8, 2024. —Steven Ferdman—Getty Images The Supreme Court on Monday denied President Donald Trump ’s request for a rehearing in relation to a 2023 civil case that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E.

Jean Carroll, court documents show.

The President’s legal battle with Carroll began in 2019, after the writer alleged she was raped by Trump in a changing room at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City in the 1990s.

It resulted in two separate trials.

In one lawsuit, filed under the New York Adult Survivors Act in 2022, a jury awarded Carroll some $5 million in damages for the sexual abuse and defamation.

Trump asked the Supreme Court to review the decision, but it denied the petition in June .

He requested a rehearing by the highest court, but that request was denied Monday without comment.

Rehearings in the Supreme Court are rarely granted.

Per court regulations , such petitions are only permitted under “intervening circumstances of a substantial or controlling effect.” Read More: Trump’s South Korea Shift Tests a Key U.S.

Alliance The President maintains that he did not know Carroll prior to her accusations against him.

“I have absolutely no idea who this woman is,” he wrote on social media after the first verdict was handed down—which he called a “disgrace.” “No one is above the law, not even a former President of the United States,” Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said at the time.

She added that she hoped the verdict would help tear down “a wall of doubt and intimidation” faced by survivors of sexual assault.