Nov. 11 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has asked the conservative-leaning Supreme Court to review the $5 million civil penalty he was ordered to pay writer E. Jean Carroll for sexually abusing her in the mid-1990s and then defaming her when she made the allegations public.
The petition to the Supreme Court was filed on Monday, Axios and CNN reported.
Trump has been ordered through two court cases to pay Carroll a combined $88.3 million in compensatory and punitive damages after being found liable for sexually abusing her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and for defaming her by denying in 2019 that he had sexually abused her.
The president has repeatedly sought to have the rulings dismissed, but his requests have been repeatedly rejected.
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