Supreme Court again rejects Trump's bid to overturn E Jean Carroll sex abuse case

What the report says

The US Supreme Court has again refused to take up President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn a civil jury verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E Jean Carroll, according to BBC World News. The court issued the decision in an order list on Monday and gave no explanation. It follows an earlier rejection in June of Trump’s first bid to have the case reviewed.

Carroll’s lawyer said the repeated refusal leaves the jury’s unanimous verdict intact. Trump has long denied wrongdoing and has argued that the trial judge allowed prejudicial evidence to be shown to jurors. In July, he paid Carroll more than $5m in damages tied to her claims that he sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s and later defamed her online.

The case centers on Carroll’s accusation that Trump attacked her in the mid-1990s and then publicly denied it in a 2022 Truth Social post. BBC World News said Trump has not yet commented on the latest Supreme Court action. The outlet also noted that he is separately seeking to overturn another federal civil defamation award for Carroll worth $83.3m, although the justices have not ruled on that matter. The developments matter because they keep one of Trump’s highest-profile civil cases final while another remains pending.