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The decision leaves intact a 2023 finding that Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll in the 1990s.","category":"Politics","area":"United States","publishedAt":"2026-08-17T14:06:08.827Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-08-17T13:46:24.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-17T14:06:08.827Z","readTime":"4 min read","scores":{"trust":86,"critic":85,"hype":30,"notes":{"trust":"Multiple named persons, official order, and specific figures across AP and CBS raise trust to 86.","critic":"CBS includes a legal team statement and both reports separate facts, giving a critic score of 85.","hype":"Headlines are mildly emphatic but the body remains factual, yielding a hype score of 30."}},"tags":["#USPolitics","#SupremeCourt","#DonaldTrump","#EJeanCarroll","#SexualAbuseAllegations","#DefamationCase"],"entities":["U.S. Supreme Court","Donald Trump","E. Jean Carroll","Bergdorf Goodman","New York"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["The Supreme Court declined to reconsider its June refusal to hear Trump’s appeal of a $5 million jury verdict in favour of E. Jean Carroll.","A 2023 civil jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, awarding Carroll $5 million in damages, later paid by Trump.","The court has not yet ruled on Trump’s separate appeal concerning an $83 million verdict in a related defamation case.","No right-rated outlet carried the story, according to the reports below."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The U.S. Supreme Court declined on 17 August 2026 to hear Donald Trump’s second appeal of a $5 million jury verdict in favour of the writer E. Jean Carroll. The court issued an unsigned order, repeating its June decision not to take up the case. Trump had asked the justices to reconsider that refusal."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A civil jury in New York in 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the mid-1990s at a Manhattan department store and for defaming her in 2022. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages. Trump paid the judgment, including accrued interest, shortly after the Supreme Court’s first refusal to hear the appeal."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Carroll, a former advice columnist and television host, testified that Trump attacked her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman. Trump has denied the allegations and called the case a \"hoax\". The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on Trump’s separate appeal of an $83 million verdict in a related defamation case."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the reports below mention that no right-rated outlet carried the story. The digests from centre-rated outlets did not include the $83 million verdict or Trump’s presidential immunity argument, which were reported in full by CBS News and the Associated Press."}],"basedOn":[{"sourceName":"Associated Press News","url":"https://apnews.com/article/trump-supreme-court-e-jean-carroll-defamation-769b731baf27199224c30af55cd0a149","headline":"Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump’s push to toss out $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case","angle":"","publishedAt":"2026-08-17T13:46:24.000Z"},{"sourceName":"CBS News","url":"https://cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-appeal-of-e-jean-carroll-case","headline":"Supreme Court declines to rehear Trump's appeal in $5 million E. 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