A federal appeals court docket on Thursday denied President Trump’s motion seeking to delay the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial set for January 15, 2024, in Manhattan.
Trump’s legal professional requested the appeals court docket to present the previous president 90 days to remain the trial and provides him the choice to take the battle to the US Supreme Court docket.
“The requested stays are necessary and appropriate to give President Trump an opportunity to fully litigate his entitlement to present an immunity defense in the underlying proceedings, including pursuing the appeal in the Supreme Court if necessary,” Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba wrote, based on ABC News.
A federal appeals court docket in September denied Trump’s request to remain a defamation swimsuit filed by E Jean Carroll.
The Second Circuit Court docket of Appeals earlier this month dominated Trump can’t assert absolute presidential immunity.
Choose Lewis Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, beforehand ruled that Trump is accountable for defamatory statements he made about E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of rape.
In Could Manhattan jury reached a verdict within the E. Jean Carroll rape/defamation case.
In 2019, E. Jean Carroll alleged Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room within the Nineties.
Trump has denied the allegations and known as E. Jean Carroll a “whack job” who’s “not my type.”
The jury discovered Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll and ordered him to pay $5 million in damages (Trump can also be interesting this case).
Trump blasted E. Jean. Carroll throughout a CNN city corridor in Could.
“What kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up and within minutes you’re playing hanky-panky in a dressing room?” Trump mentioned, including the accusation was a ‘fake’ and ‘made-up story.’
She went after Trump once more and Choose Lewis Kaplan agreed with E. Jean Carroll’s attorneys and mentioned Trump is accountable for his statements.
Carroll is in search of at the very least $10 million in damages on this separate case.
The Second Circuit Court docket of Appeals denied Trump’s request to delay the defamation trial.
Trump requested the delay to present him an opportunity to enchantment to the US Supreme Court docket.
