Supreme Court Refuses a Second Time to Hear Trump’s Appeal of the $5 Million Carroll Verdict

The Supreme Court on Monday, Aug. 17, declined to reconsider Trump’s appeal of the $5 million jury verdict finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and later defamed her. It was the second time he had asked the justices to take the case; they first refused on June 29. The denial came without explanation as part of the court’s scheduled summer order lists.

Trump has now exhausted his appeals in the case. His lawyers had sought reconsideration by tying the verdict to a separate $83 million defamation judgment Carroll won, a petition that remains pending before the court.

Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan said the jury’s verdict “is now final and cannot be challenged in any court.” Carroll’s lawyers told the Associated Press she collected the full judgment last month, after arguing in a filing that Trump had “slow-roll[ed] his defenses, asserting or inventing a new one each time his prior effort to delay the case fails.” Trump continues to deny the accusation.