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King_Klonopin

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Tue Nov 11, 2025, 07:13 PM Nov 11

Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn E. Jean Carroll civil verdict [View all]

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Source: Fox News

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a jury’s civil lawsuit verdict that he sexually abused and later defamed former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Trump’s lawyers argued in a filing that allegations leading to the $5 million verdict were "propped up" by a "series of indefensible evidentiary rulings" that allowed Carroll's lawyers to present "highly inflammatory propensity evidence" against him.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-e-jean-carroll-case-verdict/ar-AA1QdmBg?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=052e45e1a69943f0b5b833f82ab80322&ei=57





E. Jean Carroll's civil trials were decided by a jury, not a judge. There were two separate trials, both of which resulted in jury verdicts against Donald Trump. In the first trial, a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation, and in the second trial, another jury found him liable for defamation and awarded damages.


Seventh Amendment Rights for Trial under Civil (Tort) Law – a Jury trial which is binding
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right
of trial by jury shall be preserved,
and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States,
than according to the rules of the common law.

1) Is Trump asking for something Constitutionally illegal?
2) If the SCOTUS takes up the appeal, are they in violation of the Seventh Amendment?
3) Is the SCOTUS Trump's own personal "fixer"?
4) Will someone tell Fump to go truck himself?


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