US Supreme Court rejects Trump’s push to reject E. Jean Carroll sex abuse verdict

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.

The High Court declined to take up the case in a brief, unexplained order, as is typical. There were no noted dissents.

Trump’s lawyers had argued that allegations leading to the US$5 million verdict were propped up by “highly inflammatory” evidentiary rulings, including..