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Trump asks Supreme Court to throw out E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million verdict

A sitting president is asking the Supreme Court to erase a jury’s civil finding of sexual abuse and defamation, pressing the judiciary to undo verdict-based accountability on evidentiary grounds.

Judiciary

Nov 10, 2025

Sources

https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-abuse-defamation-supreme-court-be62982deb6821b62e0471f5bea3e64d

Summary

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a $5 million civil jury verdict finding he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll and later defamed her. The move shifts a jury-tested civil accountability finding into a high-stakes institutional test of appellate reversal based on evidentiary objections. If granted, it would nullify the verdict and reset how courts handle proof and prior-acts evidence in public-figure sexual abuse and defamation cases.

Reality Check

This conduct risks normalizing a pattern where powerful officials treat jury findings as optional and attempt to re-litigate credibility through appellate attacks on what evidence the public is allowed to hear. It is not, on these facts alone, likely criminal: petitioning the Supreme Court to review alleged evidentiary errors is lawful litigation activity, not a standalone offense under federal law. But our democracy is weakened when leaders seek to delegitimize jury adjudications as “indefensible” without accepting the verdict’s institutional finality; the precedent teaches future officeholders to treat courts as a stage for reputational warfare rather than accountability.

Detail

President Donald Trump filed a request with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to set aside a $5 million jury verdict from a civil case in New York that found him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll and for defaming her.

In the filing, Trump’s lawyers argued that the verdict rested on what they described as improper evidentiary decisions, asserting that the trial court made “a series of indefensible evidentiary rulings” and allowed Carroll to present “highly inflammatory propensity evidence.”

At a 2023 trial, Carroll testified that in spring 1996 Trump turned an encounter into an attack in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan. The jury also found Trump liable for defamation based on statements he made in October 2022 denying her allegation.