E. Jean Carroll walks outside Manhattan Federal Court, for the second civil trial after she accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, in New York City, U.S., January 25, 2024.
Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters
President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a civil court verdict that ordered him to pay the writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her while denying her claim that he sexually assaulted her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
“This is the first case in our Nation’s history in which a court has imposed damages liability on a President for his conduct in office,” the petition to the Supreme Court by Trump’s lawyer says.
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