Trump Seeks Delay in Carroll Defamation Trial to Consider Supreme Court Appeal

The former president faces a trial in January to determine damages owed to E. Jean Carroll for defamation, following a previous $5 million award to Carroll in a related case.

• Former President Donald Trump is seeking to delay his defamation trial set to begin next month in the 2019 lawsuit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, so he can consider a potential appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Trump is scheduled to go on trial Jan. 15 in Manhattan federal court to determine how much in damages he owes to Carroll for calling her a liar and disparaging her when he denied her rape claim.
• Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, sued Trump in November 2019 over comments he made shortly after Carroll publicly accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s.
• A federal appeals court ruled earlier this month Trump could not use presidential immunity as a defense because he waited too long to invoke it.
• Carroll prevailed in a separate but related lawsuit in May that alleged defamation and battery, and was awarded $5 million in damages. Trump is appealing that case.

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