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Trump goes to the Supreme Court in the Carroll case
Updated 11/11/2025 – 01:36 amReading time: 29 minutes
US President Donald Trump wants to overturn the verdict that convicted him of sexual abuse and defamation of the author E. Jean Carroll. Now he is appealing to the Supreme Court. All developments in the news blog.
US President Donald Trump has appealed to the US Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that ordered him to pay $5 million in damages for the sexual assault and defamation of journalist E. Jean Carroll. An appeals court later upheld the verdict and found no errors in the proceedings that would justify a new trial. A request for reconsideration by all judges on the appeal court also failed.
In the complaint filed with the Supreme Court, Trump accuses Chief Justice Lewis Kaplan of presenting inadmissible evidence to the jury – including the statements of two other women who accused him of sexual assault, as well as the infamous 2005 “Access Hollywood” recording in which Trump made lewd comments about women. There were “no eyewitnesses, no video recordings and no police investigations”. Carroll only accused him decades later – after his political rise – in order to harm him and profit from it.
Carroll had accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a department store in the mid-1990s. Trump denied the allegations in 2019, saying Carroll was “not his type” and claiming she made up the story to promote her book – after which Carroll filed a lawsuit. It is still unclear whether the Supreme Court will accept the appeal.
The USA is sticking to the easing of sanctions against Syria under interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa. The administration of US President Donald Trump extended the suspension of certain punitive measures by six months, according to a Treasury Department document. At the start of this extension, al-Sharaa visited Trump in the White House.
The relaxed sanctions affect the so-called Caesar Act – a package that was imposed in 2019 with the aim of weakening the then government of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad. There were economic sanctions, but also direct sanctions against the government at the time, which was overthrown almost a year ago.
