The US supreme court declined on Monday to hear Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a $5m verdict in favor of E Jean Carroll in a case in ⁠which a jury found ⁠him liable for sexually ​abusing the former magazine columnist and then defaming her.The justices turned away the president’s appeal after a lower court upheld the 2023 jury verdict and rejected Trump’s arguments ⁠that the trial was unfair because the judge impermissibly let jurors hear evidence of his alleged past sexual misconduct.Trump has been battling Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, ever since she ⁠published an excerpt from her memoir in 2019 in which she alleged that Trump had raped her in around 1996 in ​a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan. ‌Trump denied Carroll’s claims and ‌asserted that she lied about the accusations both in 2019 while he was still serving his first term as president, ‌and again in 2022 when he was out of office.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotionMore details soon …