Three days after the Supreme Court docket issued its first set of summer orders, President Donald Trump’s request for the Supreme Court docket to rethink its choice to depart in place the 2023 verdict in opposition to him in a civil go well with introduced by E. Jean Carroll has been distributed to the justices. Which means the courtroom may act on Trump’s request on the subsequent set of summer season orders, that are scheduled to be launched on Monday, Aug. 17.
Carroll filed the lawsuit that led to Trump’s petition in a federal courtroom in New York in 2022. She alleged that Trump had sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan division retailer in 1996 after which defamed her in 2022 after she went public along with her assault allegations. A jury in the end awarded Carroll $5 million, and the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upheld that verdict.
Trump appealed to the Supreme Court docket final fall. He argued that Carroll’s legal professionals shouldn’t have been allowed to introduce testimony by different girls who additionally alleged that Trump had assaulted them, in addition to the 2005 “Entry Hollywood” tape by which Trump bragged about grabbing girls by their genitals.
In her brief urging the court to deny Trump’s petition, Carroll countered that even when the jury shouldn’t have been allowed to contemplate the proof, it in the end wouldn’t have made a distinction as a result of the remainder of her case was so sturdy.
Trump’s authentic petition for assessment was first distributed for the justices’ Feb. 20, 2026, convention, however the courtroom repeatedly rescheduled it, lastly contemplating it on the June 25 convention and denying it on June 29. Trump then filed his petition for rehearing on July 8.
The justices haven’t granted a petition to rethink their denial of assessment since 2018.
Advisable Quotation: Amy Howe, Trump’s petition for reconsideration of $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case could also be thought of by the justices in August, SCOTUSblog (Jul. 23, 2026, 7:13 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/07/trumps-petition-for-reconsideration-of-5-million-verdict-in-e-jean-carroll-case-may-be-considere/