I’m disappointed in SCOTUS because I watched this trial, and this Judge did everything in his power to let this person win. SCOTUS knows this was a kangaroo court, and to let this stand against the President of our country shows our legal system is starting to fail. Activist Judges are trying to destroy our country by destroying anything Trump-related, and it is quite evident in their intentions. Yet SCOTUS sits by in their ivory tower, allowing corrupt Judges to remain corrupt.
SCOTUS is our base, kind of our final frontier, but they are losing credibility from both sides of the aisle. The decision about birthright citizenship was horrible, and the consequences to our country could be disastrous to our future. Their logic ignores reality, and that is sad. But we still have the best legal system in the world; it just needs tweaking. All IMO.
“The Supreme Court has turned down a request by President Donald Trump to rehear the case brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll, resulting in a $5 million verdict for her.
SCOTUS Blog reported that on June 29, the Supreme Court previously turned down Trump’s appeal in the 2023 case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll and awarded her $5 million.
On July 13, Carroll received the $5 million, plus interest, after Trump exhausted his avenues of appeal.
His attorneys had filed a petition to rehear the case on July 8, which the Supreme Court denied Monday. SCOTUS Blog noted that the court rarely grants rehearings, the most recent instance being in 2018.
“Carroll filed the lawsuit at the center of the dispute in 2022. She alleged that in 1996 Trump had sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a New York department store and then in 2022, after she went public with her assault allegations, defamed her,” the news outlet said.
Trump denied the allegation contained in Carroll’s 2019 book, calling it a politically and financially motivated hoax.
Strengthening Trump’s political weapon argument, New York passed a law in 2023, after he declared his candidacy, that created a one-time, one-year window for those claiming to be victims of sexual assault to bring their cases that fall outside the normal statute of limitations.
Carroll would not have brought her suit otherwise, because it allegedly occurred in the 1990s.
Further, CNN reported in 2019 that Carroll’s account of the sexual assault in a Bergdorf’s dressing room mirrored the plot of a 2012 “Law & Order: SVU” episode.
“It tickled me to death,” she told CNN at the time when this was pointed out to her. “It’s a great, huge coincidence, but it is a magnificent one, I must say.”
“It’s very ironic because ‘Law & Order’ happens to be one of my favorite shows,” Carroll said. “I love ‘Law & Order: Criminal Intent.’”
Finally, Trump argued in a 2024 social media post that Carroll at first said that she was wearing a dress that hadn’t been made yet”