Supreme Court to hear arguments to overturn E. Jean Carroll's verdict against Trump

The Hill reports The Supreme Court has scheduled President Donald Trump’s petition seeking review of the jury verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll.

The court’s conservative majority blew off Carroll’s recent request opposing Trump’s motion to overturn a verdict that ordered Trump to pay Carroll $88.3 million in damages. That amount, in turn, stems from a $5 million judgment handed down in 2023 for sexual abuse, plus an additional $83.3 million for defamation.

At the closed-door conference, the justices will now consider taking up Trump’s bid to throw out the verdict alongside dozens of other petitions that have recently reached the high court.

“A federal jury in New York found Trump liable in 2023 for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and defaming her by denying her story when she came forward during Trump’s first presidency,” reports The Hill. “… Trump has maintained he didn’t assault Carroll. His appeal revolves around the evidence the jury saw — and didn’t see — during the civil trial.”

In a Ja. Filing, Carroll’s attorneys argued that Trump seeks to litigate evidentiary issues yet again, but fails to challenge a lower court’s conclusion that Trump failed to show that any error affected his rights. Carroll points out that The Second Circuit court has “already correctly held” that the original court properly considered all evidence before a jury found Trump’s claims questionable.

But Trump’s lawyers want arguments from other women claiming similar sexual-style assault from Trump as well as recorded evidence of sexual assault behavior depicted in the controversial “Access Hollywood Tape” excluded from case argument.

But Trump wants this evidence, including the Access Hollywood Tapes containing Trump’s stated love of grabbing women by their privates, as bounds for canceling the New York jury’s conclusion about Trump.

Trump, however, argues that the jury’s decision is “deeply damaging to the fabric of our Republic.”

“This mistreatment of a President cannot be allowed to stand,” Trump wrote in their final brief, submitted Wednesday.

The Hill reports the Supreme Court could make an announcement “as soon as that day or in an order list set to be released the following Monday morning.” The justices “could also punt an announcement to their next conference.”

Read the Hill report at this link.