Appeals Court Weighs Trump’s Bid to Overturn E. Jean Carroll Verdict

Published on September 6, 2024

NEW YORK—Lawyers for former President Donald Trump argued in a Lower Manhattan courtroom on Friday morning, seeking to toss out a jury verdict that found that Trump liable of sexual abuse and defamation against writer E. Jean Carrol. Trump attended the hearing, sitting by himself in a chair behind a row of lawyers in a courtroom of the federal appeals court. He did not attend the 2-week trial in the case last year, which resulted in a jury awarding Carroll $5 million after finding Trump sexually abused her. Trump’s attorney D. John Sauer argued that in all the previous proceedings, Carroll’s lawyers failed to invoke any law that Trump had violated. The plaintiffs’ strategy, he said, was to rely on inflammatory evidence of questionable relevance, for example concerning the Access Hollywood recording in which Trump made sexually explicit remarks about women....

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