Alina Habba, former President Donald Trump’s lawyer in his recently concluded defamation lawsuit, is questioning the presiding judge over a potential conflict of interest that could prove to be crucial to secure a new trial in the case.
The defamation trial ended on Jan. 26, with a panel of nine jurors ordering President Trump to pay the plaintiff, writer E. Jean Carroll, $83 million in damages. Ms. Carroll had sued the former president in 2019 over two of his statements in which he denied sexually assaulting her.
