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US top court again rejects Trump push to toss out E. Jean Carroll verdict
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The US Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s US$5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their refusal to hear his appeal. It is unusual – although not unheard of – for the court to grant such requests.
The US Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s US$5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.
The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their refusal to hear his appeal.
It is unusual – although not unheard of – for the court to grant such requests. Trump paid the judgment shortly after the court declined to take up...