President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to hear his appeal of a civil verdict that ordered him to pay the writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages after holding him liable for sexually abusing her during an encounter in a New York department store in the 1990s and for defaming her decades later.

Trump's request on Monday comes nearly 11 months after the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the verdict issued by a civil jury in Manhattan federal court in May 2023.

The petition to the Supreme Court says that Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the trial, made a "series of indefensible evidentiary rulings," among them "improperly admitting highly inflammatory propensity evidence against President Trump."

That evidence included testimony by two other women who alleged

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