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The Supreme Court has denied President Trump's appeal of the $5 million jury finding in the 2022 defamation case brought against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll.
The justices turned away Trump's appeal after a lower court upheld the 2023 jury verdict and rejected Trump's arguments the trial was unfair because the judge permitted evidence of past misconduct.
The US Supreme Court has rejected a push by President Trump to throw out a jury's findings of sexual assault.
The Supreme Court Monday rejected President Trump's appeal in the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case. CBS News legal contributor Rebecca Roiphe has the latest.
The decision means the US president will now have to pay her the $5m (£3.6m) in damages she had been awarded.
A unanimous federal jury found that a preponderance of evidence supported Carroll's claim that Mr. Trump sexually abused her.
President Trump had asked the justices to intervene after a jury found that he had sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll.
The Supreme Court refused to hear President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn a jury's finding that he sexually assaulted and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll.
