NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump will soon ask the Supreme Court to throw out a jury's finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her, his lawyers said in a recent court filing.

Trump's lawyers previewed the move as they asked the high court to extend its deadline for challenging the $5 million verdict from Sept. 10 to Nov. 11. The president "intends to seek review" of "significant issues" arising from the trial and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' subsequent decisions upholding the verdict, his lawyers said.

Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan , said Wednesday: "We do not believe that President Trump will be able to present any legal issues in the Carroll cases that merit revie

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