President Donald Trump is positioned to ask the Supreme Court to toss a New York jury’s 2024 verdict that found him liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll by disputing her accusation of sexual abuse.
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court declined Trump’s request to rehear his appeal of the $83 million defamation case “en banc,” or by the full bench of judges. That development sets the president’s legal team up to appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
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