A federal appeals court on Friday denied President Donald Trump‘s bid to rehear his appeal of a jury’s verdict that he was liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll and defaming her.
A divided full bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit denied Trump’s appeal, upholding the $5 million judgment against him. The appeal to the full court came months after a three-judge panel on the appeals court denied Trump’s bid, meaning the final avenue through which the president may appeal the decision is the Supreme Court.
A New York jury found in May 2023 that Trump was liable for sexually assaulting Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s and defaming her in 2022 by denying the accusation, awarding her $5 million
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