President Donald Trump‘s legal team on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to reverse a New York jury’s 2024 verdict that found him liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump’s petition to the Supreme Court comes after a federal appeals court in late April declined his request to rehear the $83 million defamation case, which concluded the president defamed Carroll when he disputed her accusation that he sexually abused her in a dressing room in the 1990s. In court filings, Trump said the appeals court failed to rule on whether his presidential immunity shielded him from liability for defamation claims, invoking the Supreme Court’s landmark 2024 presidential immunity decision. Advertisement