The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a humiliating blow to President Donald Trump when it rejected his push to throw out a jury’s finding that the president sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll.
The president, 80, has been demanding that the findings that led to the $5 million civil verdict be tossed, but the country’s highest court declined to take up the case in an unexplained order.
A federal jury in 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and then defaming her and awarded the writer $5 million in damages. The jury found that the assault occurred in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.
Trump’s lawyers argued that the judge in the case broke federal evidence rules and claimed it was a distraction from Trump’s duties as president, despite the verdict being reached before he returned to the White House last year.
A spokesman for Trump’s legal team responded to the Daily Beast’s question about the Supreme Court’s decision not to take the case.
“The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes. President Trump will keep winning against Liberal Lawfare, as he continues to focus on his mission to Make America Great Again,” the spokesman said in a statement.
The court’s decision comes as the Supreme Court is set to deliver rulings on some of the biggest cases of the term this week before a summer recess.
While the court has already given the president a series of wins regarding his immigration policy, the court’s decision on birthright citizenship looms large.
Trump has repeatedly attacked the Supreme Court and individual justices for not ruling in his favor in the past, including their strike to his economic policy when they restricted his presidential power to impose tariffs earlier this year.
