President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its refusal to hear his appeal of the $5 million judgment awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll.
“Those questions are likely to bear on the proper disposition” of the $5 million case because Carroll “introduced and relied on those same official Presidential statements at trial,” his lawyers wrote.
Trump’s lawyers cited a June 2025 dissent by Judge Steven Menashi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who argued that Carroll’s case had been “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings.”
The court didn’t disclose the vote count or how individual justices voted, and it gave no explanation for rejecting the appeal.
The decision left Trump owing Carroll $5 million in damages. With interest, the amount has since grown to nearly $5.8 million.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on July 4 denied Trump’s request for additional time to respond to Carroll’s demand for payment, leaving an existing July 7 deadline in place.
Carroll’s lawyers had asked Kaplan on June 30 to order the release of the money from an escrow fund after the Supreme Court refused to hear Trump’s appeal.
They argued that Trump was seeking to delay payment despite the ordinary appeals process having ended.
“The amount has grown to nearly $5.8 million with interest and should be required by the court to be disbursed,” Carroll’s lawyers wrote in papers filed in Manhattan federal court.
They also said Trump had resumed making defamatory statements about Carroll while his lawyers considered asking the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision.
Trump has denied Carroll’s allegations and has repeatedly described the cases against him as politically motivated.
Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Carroll and not related to the judge, said after the Supreme Court’s June 29 decision in the $5 million case that the court’s action left the jury’s verdict intact.
The decision “affirms once and for all the jury’s unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll,” she said in a statement to news outlets.
A spokesman for Trump’s legal team told The Epoch Times in June: “The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes. President Trump will keep winning against Liberal Lawfare, as he continues to focus on his mission to Make America Great Again.”
Carroll accused Trump of attacking her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the 1990s. Trump responded to the accusation, saying he’d never met Carroll.
“Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened,” he said in a 2019 interview with The Hill.
