Trump urges Supreme Court to overturn E. Jean Carroll’s $83M defamation verdict | CNN Politics
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to once again step into his messy legal brawl with magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, appealing an $83.3 million jury verdict for defamation on the grounds that, as president, he is immune from the litigation.

Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to once again step into his messy legal brawl with magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, appealing an $83.3 million jury verdict for defamation on the grounds that, as president, he is immune from the litigation.

The appeal, which has not yet been docketed at the high court, relies heavily on the court’s 2024 decision granting the president wide immunity for actions taken in office.

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I don’t know for 100%, but my recollection is that Trump was required to put the money in escrow in order to appeal the decision. If that’s true, then he’s already paid it, and his tying it up in court is just delaying his victim from getting it.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      The escrow paid out; E. Jean Carroll has it. Bitch-ass Trump is throwing a tantrum to try to get the courts to make her return it.