The Supreme Court has declined to take President Trump’s request to rehear an appeal in the $5 million judgment against him for sexual abuse and defamation.
The decision was shared in an unsigned order. A similar rejection was dealt in June, which led to Trump’s legal team requesting that the justices reconsider.
President Trump’s lawyers wrote in the July 8 petition to rehear the case: “When a forthcoming or pending case may affect the proper disposition of another petition, the Court may hold the related petition, and later resolve it in light of the lead case. Here, Carroll I is the direct vehicle for the official-acts immunity issue. Carroll II is the related petition in which the same official statements were used as evidence. Holding Carroll II for Carroll I would permit the Court to dispose of the two related matters in an orderly and consistent fashion.”
“Carroll I” refers to the $83.3 million verdict against Trump, and “Carroll II” refers to the $5 million judgment.
Before the Court’s earlier decline to take up the case, Trump’s lawyers wrote, “Carroll waited more than 20 years to falsely accuse Donald Trump, who she politically opposes, until after he became the 45th President, when she could maximize political injury to him and profit for herself.”
President Trump blasted the Supreme Court’s decision. “Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to ‘review’ a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I never met (Decades old celebrity photo line, standing with her husband, does not count!),” he wrote on Truth Social at the time. “I will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength. This Case is really against the United States of America, and all it stands for, and should never be allowed to happen to another President, or Candidate to be!”
