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sentences that state something as happening or true
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U.S. Supreme Court again rejects Trump's effort to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict
Top court declines to hear Trump's appeal of $5M US verdict in favour of ex-magazine columnist
Rebuffing U.S. President Donald Trump for a second time, the United States Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear his appeal of a $5-million US verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine columnist.
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him → reject → columnist
The justices rejected Trump's request to reconsider their previous decision in June denying his appeal of the 2023 jury verdict stemming from allegations that he raped her in the 1990s in a Manhattan department store's dressing room.
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he → reject → room
Trump's lawyers contend that the trial was unfair.
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trial → contend → ?
The court's order was unsigned and came with no explanation.
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order → come → explanation
The Supreme Court rarely grants requests for reconsideration.
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Court → grant → reconsideration
The justices also are weighing the Republican president's appeal of a separate $83.3-million US jury verdict for defaming Carroll in 2019 during his first term as president, when he denied the claims and asserted that she lied about the accusations.
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she → weigh → accusations
Trump's lawyers in that appeal argue that presidential immunity shields him from Carroll's claims and that lower courts wrongly decided that he had forfeited that defence.
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he → argue → defence
Trump has been battling Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, ever since she published an excerpt from her memoir in 2019 in which she alleged that Trump had raped her around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
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Trump → battle → Manhattan
Trump denied Carroll's claims and asserted that she lied both in 2019 and again in 2022, while he was out of office.
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he → deny → office
The case that led to the $5-million US verdict concerned Trump's statements in 2022 when he called Carroll's claim a "hoax" and a "con job" in a post on social media.
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he → lead → media
Jurors in that case decided in 2023 that Trump had sexually abused Carroll and defamed her, but did not find that Trump raped Carroll, as she had claimed.
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she → decide → Carroll
U.S. judge clears E. Jean Carroll to collect $5.8M from Trump sex abuse, defamation case
U.S. Supreme Court declines Trump's appeal in E. Jean Carroll case
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Court → clear → case
Following the Supreme Court's denial in June of Trump's appeal in the case, Carroll collected nearly $5.63 million US from Trump.
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Carroll → follow → Trump
The payout represented the original $5-million US civil verdict, plus interest.
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payout → represent → verdict
In Trump's request for rehearing, his lawyers said that the issue of presidential immunity in the case that led to the $83.3-million US verdict that a jury reached in 2024 — which the justices still could decide to take up — could impact the 2023 verdict, as well.
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justices → say → verdict
The Supreme Court in a landmark 2024 decision ruled that former presidents have full immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken in office that were within their core constitutional powers as president.
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that → rule → president
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