E. Jean Carroll leaves the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in New York City on Jan. 25, 2024, after proceedings ended for the day in the defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump. Carroll is suing Donald Trump for assailing her character and credibility after she accused him of sexual assault.

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump is taking his last shot at overturning a $5 million jury award he was ordered to pay in 2023 after being found liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

Trump is asking the Supreme Court to review the verdict, which was upheld by an appeals court, a spokesperson for his legal team said Nov. 11.

A spokesperson for Trump’s legal team repeated his assertion that the was part of a Democratic witch hunt against the president and part of the "Liberal Lawfare" against him.

What does Trump argue in his Supreme Court appeal?

The 314-page filing contends that Carroll waited more than 20 years to raise her accusations after Trump became president. The filing also contends the allegations match the plot of one of her favorite television shows, "Law & Order."

"President Trump has clearly and consistently denied that this supposed incident ever occurred. No physical or DNA evidence corroborates Carroll’s story," the filing states. "There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation."

What did the federal appeals court rule earlier?

The appeals court rejected Trump's argument that the trial judge made procedural errors, ruling Trump "has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial."

"Further, he has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial."

In September, a different panel of judges on the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an $83.3 million jury award against Trump over comments he made disputing the veracity of Carroll's claims.

The appeals court backed the jury’s decision that Trump would not stop defaming Carroll unless he was hit with a substantial financial penalty.

The court also rejected Trump’s argument that he could not be sued because of the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision that presidents have at least a presumption of immunity for official acts taken while in office.

What did E. Jean Carroll allege in her lawsuits?

Carroll said in 2019 that Trump sexually assaulted her at a New York City department store in 1996, and Trump fired back with allegations that she was making up the story to sell her book.

Carroll sued him months later, winning the $83.3 million judgment.

Trump repeated the denial in a 2022 social media post, when he was not president and the first case was ongoing. Carroll then sued Trump again under a special window of time that New York granted to sexual abuse survivors, and in 2023, a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse against Carroll. This resulted in the $5 million verdict.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump asks Supreme Court to throw out E. Jean Carroll's $5 million win against him

Reporting by Maureen Groppe and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY / USA TODAY

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