Court puts off deciding whether to consider $5 million verdict against Trump – yet again

When the justices meet for their private conference on Thursday, there is one high-profile petition for review they will not consider, *** an appeal by President Donald Trump seeking review of the $5 million jury verdict entered against him in the sexual abuse and defamation case filed by journalist E. Jean Carroll.Carroll filed the lawsuit that led to the verdict in a federal court in New York in 2022. She contended that in 1996 Trump had sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store and then had defamed her in a 2022 social media post in...