April 30 (UPI) -- A full federal appeals court rejected Donald Trump's request to rehear his appeal of an $83.3 million defamation judgment awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused the president of lying when he denied sexually abusing her.
Trump has been fighting the multimillion-dollar penalty since a jury in 2024 ordered him to pay Carroll compensatory and punitive damages. The president is expected to ask the conservative-leaning Supreme Court to hear his case next.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied rehearing a 5-3 split decision among active participating judges. The order rejected Trump's request for full-court review of his arguments that the case should be dismissed because he made the comments while president, and that the United States should replace him as the defendant in the case.
The ruling marked the third and fourth times the full 2nd Circuit court had voted to deny en banc rehearing of rulings in this specific defamation case and fifth and sixth denial opinions it has issued involving both cases Carroll brought against Trump.
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