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Supreme Court rejects Trump’s second appeal over $5m E. Jean Carroll verdict

The court declined to reconsider its June refusal to hear the case, leaving the 2023 jury award intact

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E. Jean Carroll exits the New York Federal Court after former President Donald Trump appeared in court, Sept. 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

What this story says

  • 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.

Who covered it

Left 40%(4)Centre 60%(6)Right 0%(0)

Percentages are shares of the 10 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured .

Trust

86/100

Craft

85/100

Hype

30/100

10 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

None of the 10 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

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.

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.

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.

What the coverage left out

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.

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Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 2 times, most recently on 17 Aug 2026, 14:30, and will add the sides that appear.

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How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

4 rated outlets

  • The four left-rated reports led on the Supreme Court’s decision as a final rejection of Trump’s attempt to overturn the verdict. The Associated Press, whose full report is printed below, described the court’s action as "again rebuff[ing]" Trump’s push. It noted that Trump had paid the $5 million judgment and quoted Carroll’s testimony about the 1990s encounter.
  • The Associated Press also reported that the court has not yet acted on Trump’s appeal of the $83 million verdict. It included Carroll’s public identification of herself as a sexual assault survivor and Trump’s denial of wrongdoing. The outlet’s digest counterparts carried the same core facts: the court’s refusal, the $5 million award, and the sexual abuse and defamation findings.

Centre

6 rated outlets

  • The six centre-rated reports led on the court’s decision as a procedural denial, framing it as a second refusal to intervene. CBS News, whose full report is printed below, described the jury’s 2023 verdict in detail, including the unanimous finding and the three-hour deliberation. It reported that Carroll received $5.62 million, including interest, and quoted Trump’s characterisation of the case as a "hoax".
  • CBS News also noted Trump’s absence from the first trial and his brief testimony in the second, where a jury awarded Carroll $83 million. It reported Trump’s legal team’s argument that an appeals panel neglected to rule on presidential immunity. The outlet’s digest counterparts carried the same facts: the court’s refusal, the $5 million verdict, and the sexual abuse and defamation findings.

Right

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated right has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Read it at the source

10 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

4

Centre

6

Right

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Not rated

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Supreme Court rejects Trump’s second appeal over $5m E. Jean Carroll…?
Of the 10 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 40% are rated left, 60% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Supreme Court rejects Trump’s second appeal over $5m E. Jean Carroll… left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 10 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Supreme Court rejects Trump’s second appeal over $5m E. Jean Carroll… biased?
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s second appeal over $5m E. Jean Carroll verdict is one event reported by 10 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Supreme Court rejects Trump’s second appeal over $5m E. Jean Carroll…?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Supreme Court rejects Trump’s second appeal over $5m E. Jean Carroll…?
10 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did the Supreme Court decide on 17 August 2026?
The U.S. Supreme Court declined for the second time to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a $5 million jury verdict in favour of E. Jean Carroll. The decision leaves intact a 2023 finding that Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll in the 1990s.
How much did the jury award E. Jean Carroll?
A civil jury in 2023 awarded E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages for sexual abuse and defamation. Including accrued interest, Carroll received $5.62 million. A separate jury later awarded her $83 million in a related defamation case.
Did any right-rated outlet report the Supreme Court’s decision?
No right-rated outlet carried the story, according to the reports printed below. The coverage was limited to left-rated and centre-rated outlets.

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