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Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump's push to toss out $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case

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The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their refusal to hear his appeal. The court denied Trump’s petition along with several others. U.S. & World Donald Trump Jul 29 Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn $83.3 million award in E. Jean Carroll defamation case Donald Trump Jul 14 E. Jean Carroll collects more than $5 million from Trump in sexual abuse and defamation case Crime and Courts May 28 Justice Department opens criminal probe into E. Jean Carroll It’s unusual — although not unheard of — for the court to grant such requests. Trump paid the judgment shortly after the court declined to take up his appeal in June. Trump and the Justice Department are also asking the high court to toss out a second Carroll verdict t