U.S. Supreme Court Police nonstop visitors from down information barriers successful beforehand of tribunal building, which is obscured successful operation scaffolding, connected the archetypal time of the Court’s caller word connected Oct. 6, 2025 successful Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to perceive his entreaty of a civil verdict that ordered him to wage the writer E. Jean Carroll $5 cardinal successful damages aft holding him liable for sexually abusing her during an brushwood successful a New York section store successful the 1990s and for defaming her decades later.
Trump's petition connected Monday comes astir 11 months aft the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the verdict issued by a civilian assemblage successful Manhattan national tribunal successful May 2023.
The petition to the Supreme Court says that Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the trial, made a "series of indefensible evidentiary rulings," among them "improperly admitting highly inflammatory propensity grounds against President Trump."
That grounds included grounds by 2 different women who alleged that Trump committed intersexual misconduct against them astatine different times.
The petition besides says that Kaplan erred by allowing Carroll's lawyer to play for jurors the notorious "Access Hollywood" portion connected which Trump is heard bragging astir groping women without their anterior consent.
There is nary automatic close to entreaty to the Supreme Court. It is not known erstwhile the precocious tribunal volition determine whether to instrumentality Trump's appeal.
Writer Jean Carroll and Republican statesmanlike nominee and erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump look connected arsenic Lawyer John Sauer (not pictured) argues for him, arsenic helium is asking a national appeals tribunal to overturn a $5 cardinal assemblage verdict uncovering him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her astir 3 decades ago, successful Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 6, 2024, successful this tribunal sketch.
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Carroll, successful a 2019 New York mag article, archetypal went nationalist with her allegation that Trump raped her successful a dressing country of the Bergdorf Goodman section store successful the mid-1990s.
She sued him for allegedly defaming her successful comments helium made portion flatly denying that allegation aft the nonfiction appeared.
Carroll aboriginal filed a abstracted suit accusing Trump of rape and of defaming her again successful precocious 2022 erstwhile helium commented connected her allegations.
That 2nd suit was the taxable of the proceedings that ended successful May 2023. Jurors successful that lawsuit did not find Trump liable for rape, but did find him liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her.
It is that verdict that Trump has asked the Supreme Court to overturn with the caller petition.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks, during the swearing-in ceremonial for Sergio Gor arsenic U.S. Ambassador to India, astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., Nov. 10, 2025.
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"Carroll waited much than 20 years to falsely impeach Donald Trump, who she politically opposes, until aft helium became the 45th President, erstwhile she could maximize governmental wounded to him and nett for herself," the petition says.
"Notably, Carroll's allegations are a communicative that precisely matches the plotline from an occurrence of 1 of admittedly her favourite TV shows, 'Law & Order,' " the petition says.
A spokesperson for Trump's ineligible team, successful a connection connected the petition, said, "The American People basal with President Trump arsenic they request an contiguous extremity to each of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes."
"President Trump volition support winning against Liberal Lawfare, arsenic helium continues to absorption connected his ngo to Make America Great Again," the spokesperson said.
CNBC has requested remark from Carroll's lawyer.
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The archetypal defamation suit that Carroll filed against Trump went to proceedings aft the 2nd suit did.
In January 2024, a Manhattan national tribunal assemblage recovered Trump liable for defaming Carroll successful statements helium made arsenic president successful 2019 erstwhile helium denied her claims of rape.
That assemblage ordered him to wage her $83.3 successful damages.
Trump appealed that verdict.
The 2nd Circuit appeals tribunal successful September rejected that appeal.
"As observed by the territory court, the behaviour present supports a important punitive damages grant — it progressive malice and deceit, caused terrible affectional injury, and continued implicit astatine slightest a five-year period," a three-judge sheet of the appeals tribunal said successful its determination denying Trump's appeal.
"The grounds successful this lawsuit supports the territory court's determination that the 'the grade of reprehensibility' of Mr. Trump's behaviour was remarkably high, possibly unprecedented,' " the sheet said.
Trump has filed a petition with the 2nd Circuit asking that the entreaty beryllium reheard by a sheet comprised of each progressive judges connected the circuit.
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