President Donald Trump will have to pay $5 million to former columnist E. Jean Carroll in a sexual abuse and defamation case after losing a second time in federal appellate court.
On Friday morning, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the president’s bid to have the full court review a three-judge panel’s 2024 decision, which said that a federal judge had not made any mistakes that warranted a new trial.
“Simply re-litigating a case is not an appropriate use of the en banc procedure,” wrote Circuit Judge Myrna Pérez, who was joined by three colleagues. All four women were Biden administration appointees.