The US supreme court on Monday declined Donald Trump’s request to review a New York jury’s 2023 verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing writer E Jean Carroll, and then defaming her.
The justices did not provide an explanation or reasoning, and no public dissents were noted. The decision leaves intact the $5m civil judgment against Trump that was returned by the jury after the two-week trial in 2023.
The supreme court’s decision comes after a three-judge court panel at the second US circuit court of appeals in Manhattan upheld the jury’s verdict in 2024, andrejected Trump’s arguments that the trial
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