President Donald Trump has once again been turned down by the U.S. Supreme Court in respect to his legal woes with writer E. Jean Carroll.
It’s the second time this summer the court has turned down Trump’s request to hear arguments in the civil lawsuit.
In 2023, a New York jury found Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse against Carroll. Trump filed an appeal to the highest court last November, asking it to overturn the $5 million verdict. The justices first turned down the response in an unsigned order in June, and did so once again on Monday.
Trump has repeatedly said the accusations Carroll brought against him are false.
Carroll, an 82-year-old former advice columnist, claimed in her book, which was published in 2019, that she was sexually assaulted by Trump in the 1990s in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.
When he was first turned down by the Supreme Court in June, Trump said he would “continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength.”
Following the court’s decision, his legal team called the case a “Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes,” per CBS News.
The Supreme Court is still considering whether to hear Trump’s appeal in a separate case involving Carroll. In 2024, a jury again found him liable for defaming Carroll and ordered him to pay her $83.3 million in damages.
In a 2024 interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Carroll joked about all the things she was going to buy with Trump’s money she was going to acquire following her $83.3 million legal win.
“I have such great ideas for all the good I’m going to do with all of this money,” she said. “First thing, Rachel, you and I are going to go shopping. We’re going to get completely new wardrobes.”
She received the money from the $5 million verdict this summer.