SCOTUS won’t accept President Trump’s $5 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll case
The Supreme Court has refused to consider a $5 million judgment from a 2023 jury verdict that held President Trump responsible for the sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll.
WASHINGTON – A federal judge has denied President Donald Trump’s request for more time to settle the $5.8 million he won in a civil lawsuit against New York author E. Jean Carroll.
On June 30, Carroll asked a federal court in Manhattan to order Trump to pay her the money awarded to her in 2023 when a jury found him liable for defamation by calling her sexual abuse and subsequent assault allegations “the work of a con artist.”
On June 29, the Supreme Court denied President Trump’s request to reconsider the jury’s decision in the case. President Trump asked for more time to respond to Carroll’s request.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York dismissed the request in a one-sentence order on July 4. President Trump has until July 7 to respond.
President Trump claimed that “Justin Smith, the former lead attorney in this case, resigned as a result of his confirmation as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.” President Trump said his new lawyer, Josh Halpern, needs time to learn the case.
Carroll said in a June 30 court filing that the judge should withhold nearly $5.8 million from Trump at this time, including interest accrued while Trump pursues his appeal. Her lawyers argued in a filing that Trump has been “retarded” and delayed in defending her.
“But this is the end,” the lawyers said.
Carroll alleges in her lawsuit that Trump assaulted her in a department store fitting room in the 1990s and damaged her reputation in 2022 by attacking her claims as “the work of a con man.” Trump has vehemently denied her claims and is challenging the unanimous verdict of a Manhattan civil jury in 2023.
In a separate case, a Manhattan civil jury also awarded Carroll $83.3 million from Trump in 2024, concluding that Trump defamed her when he first denied her claims in 2019. This appeal is still in litigation.
