Trump urges Supreme Court to overturn E. Jean Carroll’s $83M defamation verdict | CNN Politics
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to once again step into his messy legal brawl with magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, appealing an $83.3 million jury verdict for defamation on the grounds that, as president, he is immune from the litigation.

Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to once again step into his messy legal brawl with magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, appealing an $83.3 million jury verdict for defamation on the grounds that, as president, he is immune from the litigation.

The appeal, which has not yet been docketed at the high court, relies heavily on the court’s 2024 decision granting the president wide immunity for actions taken in office.

  • psycho_driver
    20·
    12 hours ago

    Despite them being corrupt and compromised to the core, I don’t think they’ll touch this one as they know 83M is chump change for Trump with all he’s already grifted this term.

    • wjriiEnglish
      6·
      9 hours ago

      Yup. This is what they do. They basically act like his co-dependent but mildly self-aware helicopter parents, and the entire rest of the legal system is an angry school administrator. SCOTUS enables him to get away with being an absolute fuck and protects him from any real consequences, but for appearance’s sake they occasionally make him grumble an apology under his breath or do detention during his free period.