President Donald Trump will soon have to face the consequences for sexually abusing and defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll, her lawyer predicted.
The president has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a $5 million verdict that a jury awarded Carroll in May 2023, but the justices are not likely to take the case, Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan said in Tuesday’s episode of The Daily Beast Podcast.
“There’s nothing in that case that’s SCOTUS worthy,” she told host Joanna Coles.
The case has been appealed on evidentiary issues, with Trump’s lawyers arguing that the district judge should not have allowed a woman to testify about Trump accosting and assaulting her on an airplane in 1979.
Usually, lawyers cannot introduce prior “bad acts” as evidence of a specific wrongdoing, but the fed

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