The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up President Donald Trump’s appeal of a $5 million civil verdict won by writer E. Jean Carroll, leaving intact a jury finding that Trump sexually abused Carroll and defamed her by denying her account.
The Supreme Court on Monday, June 29, 2026, declined without comment to hear Trump’s challenge to the $5 million judgment entered after a May 2023 federal civil trial in Manhattan.
That 2023 jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the mid-1990s and for defaming her after he publicly denied her allegation. The encounter Carroll described was in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room.
After the Supreme Court’s action, Trump posted on Truth Social criticizing the case and promising to keep fighting what he described as “weaponization” and “lawfare.”
Trump and Carroll are also involved in a separate case: in January 2024, a different jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million after finding Trump continued to defame her with statements tied to his 2019 denials. That later judgment remains the subject of further legal proceedings.
