President Donald Trump will appeal a New York jury’s 2023 verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll to the Supreme Court.
The president’s lawyers filed an application to the Supreme Court last week, requesting a 60-day extension to file a petition for the justices to consider. A divided full bench on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit denied Trump’s bid for an en banc review in June after a three-judge panel on the 2nd Circuit rejected his appeal in December.
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“President Trump intends to seek review by this Court of significant issues arising from the Second Circuit’s erroneous decision,” Trump’s lawyers said in the filing, which appeared on the high court’s public docket this week.
The high court has yet to grant or deny the requested deadline extension. If the time extension is granted, the deadline for Trump’s lawyers to file a petition for writ of certiorari in the case would move from Sept. 11 to Nov. 10.
The $5 million judgment that Trump is appealing is one of two defamation lawsuits filed against the president by Carroll regarding his statements denying that he sexually assaulted her. In this case, a jury found Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s and defaming her in 2022 by denying the accusation. The jury did not find Trump liable for rape. Trump has denied the accusations by Carroll, maintaining that the encounter never happened.
Trump’s appeals of the May 2023 judgment at the 2nd Circuit argued that the trial was tainted by allowing evidence that improperly influenced the jury.
WHERE THE REMAINING LEGAL CASES AGAINST TRUMP STAND
The other judgment against the president, which resulted in a penalty of $83.3 million in damages for defamation against Carroll, stemmed from Trump’s 2019 comments at the White House denying that he ever sexually assaulted the advice columnist. Trump has appealed the $83.3 million judgment, with that appeal still pending.
The two defamation cases from Carroll are among the handful of cases that remain against Trump despite various criminal cases against him being dropped after he won a second term as president last year.