Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn $83.3 million award in E. Jean Carroll defamation case

Lawyers for President Donald Trump argued that he had immunity for statements made while president.

WASHINGTON, July 28 - U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to overturn an $83.3 million defamation judgment he was ordered to pay to writer E. Jean Carroll, Axios reported on Tuesday.

Trump asks Supreme Court to throw out E. Jean Carroll's $83 million verdict, Axios reports  Reuters

The Supreme Court recently rejected President Donald Trump's bid to hear his appeal of another $5 million verdict in favor of Carroll.

Trump urges Supreme Court to overturn E. Jean Carroll’s $83M defamation verdict  CNN

President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to hear his appeal of an $83.3 million jury verdict against him in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit, according to a copy of the petition reviewed by Bloomberg News.

President Donald Trump's attorneys argued to the Supreme Court that presidential immunity should toss the $83.3 million defamation judgment ordered to E. Jean Carroll.

President Trump's lawyers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the $83.3 million defamation judgment he was ordered to pay to E. Jean Carroll, Axios has learned. The judgment stemmed from Trump's 2019 statements in which he denied Carroll's claim that he'd sexually assaulted her in the 1990s and attacked her

President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.