{"id":50813,"date":"2026-04-04T18:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?p=50813"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:47:33","slug":"trump-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-e-jean-carroll-verdict-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?p=50813","title":{"rendered":"Trump Asks Supreme Court To Overturn E. Jean Carroll Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former President Donald Trump has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a civil verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.<\/p>\n

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The case, which has attracted nationwide attention, centers on questions of presidential accountability and evidentiary standards<\/p>\n

in politically sensitive trials. Carroll, a journalist and former television host, alleged that Trump assaulted her in a<\/p>\n

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Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s and defamed her when he denied the accusation decades later. In 2023, a Manhattan jury awarded<\/p>\n

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Carroll $5 million, finding Trump legally responsible for battery and defamation. An appeals court upheld the verdict in late 2024,<\/p>\n

prompting Trump\u2019s legal team to ask the Supreme Court to review the case.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s attorneys, led by St. Louis lawyer Justin D. Smith, have described Carroll\u2019s claims as a \u201cpolitically motivated hoax,\u201d arguing there was no physical or<\/p>\n

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DNA evidence, eyewitnesses, or police report to support her account. Civil rights attorney Areva Martin, meanwhile, praised Carroll\u2019s persistence, writing on<\/p>\n

X that Carroll \u201cdid what millions of survivors are told is impossible\u2014she took on one of the most powerful men in the world and won.\u201d The Supreme Court has not yet announced<\/p>\n

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whether it will hear Trump\u2019s appeal. If the justices decline to take up the case, the lower court\u2019s verdict and financial penalties will remain in effect.<\/p>\n

Carroll has also reflected on the outcome of the first civil trial, saying she believes Trump might have influenced at least one juror had he testified. Speaking in a livestream<\/p>\n

discussion, she noted that several jurors were from Trump-leaning upstate New York counties. \u201cIf he had come to court \u2026<\/p>\n

I think he could have convinced one juror,\u201d Carroll said, adding that such a scenario might have resulted in a hung jury rather than a verdict against him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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