President Trump has lost another appeal in the E. Jean Carrol defamation case, where he’s been ordered to pay $83 million in damages.
This means that Trump can now take this case to the Supreme Court, along with the one he’s already appealed to the high court.
Here’s more from USA Today:
President Donald Trump lost another appeal in his ongoing battle against paying New York writer E. Jean Carroll an $83.3 million defamation judgment after denying he sexually assaulted her.
A federal appeals court based in New York refused Trump’s request to have all of its judges hear his appeal, after a panel of three of its judges heard the case and upheld the $83.3 million judgment in September. That tees up a potential appeal from Trump to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The development marks the latest in an ongoing legal battle between Trump and Carroll that dates back to 2019 and includes two civil trials.
A New York federal jury awarded Carroll a $5 million judgment in 2023, after concluding Trump sexually abused her in a 1990s incident in a department store, and then defamed her when he denied it in 2022. Trump appealed that judgment, and is currently waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if it will hear the effort.
After that judgment, a separate New York federal jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in 2024 for defamation in two lengthy denials Trump made in 2019, when she first went public with her allegations. That’s the decision that the full appeals court decided April 29 not to review.
The move means Trump may now also take his appeal of the $83.3 million judgment to the Supreme Court.
I had honestly forgotten about all of this. The $83 million is absurd and, at the very least, I hope the Supreme Court does something about that. But at the end of the day, I have no confidence they’ll intervene.