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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 27%(57)Centre 52%(109)Right 21%(43)

Percentages are shares of the 209 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 64 of the 273 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

86/100

Craft

85/100

Hype

30/100

273 sources · methodology

Missing from the right

Only 43 of the 209 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

A reader who follows the right would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

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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Coverage settled. We checked this 9 times and stopped on 22 Aug 2026, 23:15. The figures above are what it finished at.

How other outlets pictured it

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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

57 rated outlets

  • The left-rated outlets reported that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump’s second appeal to overturn a $5 million jury verdict in favour of E. Jean Carroll. All 12 digests and the Associated Press report stated the court denied Trump’s petition without comment. The verdict, issued in 2023, found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll in the 1990s.
  • Nine of the 12 digests led on the court’s refusal to reconsider the case. The Associated Press report added that Trump had already paid the $5 million judgment after the court declined his first appeal in June. It also noted a separate $83 million verdict against Trump remains under appeal, with his legal team arguing presidential immunity should shield him from liability for comments made in 2019.
  • The Associated Press report included Carroll’s account of the 1996 encounter at Bergdorf Goodman, where she testified Trump attacked her in a dressing room. It described her as a former advice columnist and TV host. None of the digests mentioned the location of the incident or Carroll’s professional background.

Centre

109 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

43 rated outlets

  • The right-rated digests all reported that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Donald Trump’s appeal against the $5 million verdict in the E. Jean Carroll case. They noted the court’s decision was issued without explanation, following its earlier refusal in June 2023 to review the original verdict.
  • Most digests stated the jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. The Washington Times and New York Post led on the defamation claim, while NDTV and Anadolu Ajansı did not specify the grounds for the verdict. None of the digests mentioned Carroll’s testimony or the timeline of the alleged abuse.
  • Several digests referenced Trump’s ongoing legal efforts to dismiss the separate $83 million verdict. The Epoch Times and La Razón noted the court’s unsigned order, while Kurier and n-tv framed the $5 million payment as final. No digest quoted Trump’s legal team or included his public statements on the ruling.

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 209 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 27% are rated left, 52% are rated centre, 21% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 273. 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?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 209 rated outlets on this story, 27% are rated left, 52% are rated centre, 21% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
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 273 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…?
273 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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