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US Supreme Court rejects Trump’s push to reject E. Jean Carroll sex abuse verdict

South China Morning Post

South China Morning Post

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June 29, 2026

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US Supreme Court rejects Trump’s push to reject E. Jean Carroll sex abuse verdict

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The High Court declined to take up the case in a brief, unexplained order, as is typical. There were no noted dissents. Trump’s lawyers had argued that allegations leading to the US5 million verdict were propped up by “highly inflammatory” evidentiary rulings, including...

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