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submitted 1 week ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Donald Trump’s lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, has asked a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award.

The lawyer, Justin D. Smith, told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing Tuesday to stay its decision supporting the award so that Trump won’t have to pay writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals to the high court.

A Manhattan jury awarded Carroll the payout in January 2024. Another jury in May 2023 awarded Carroll $5 million after concluding Trump sexually abused her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in 1996 and then defamed her after she published her account of it in 2019.

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[-] bagsy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

She should have the sheriff show up at Mar-A-Lago and put locks on the door. That's what they do for non-billionaires. No one is above the law forever.

[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago
[-] Rusticus@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

Some pigs are more equal than others

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Four legs good.

Two legs better.

One foot in the grave.

[-] timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If Americans were allowed books, they'd be really angry about this.

🎶 O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave 🎶 O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It’s all about the pledge to the fascists.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 33 points 1 week ago

trump. lawsuits distract me from being president so I can't pay them. also trump. its fine that I sue the government I run for monies because it totally does not distract me.

[-] boogiebored@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

and run all these businesses

[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago

Smith told the 2nd Circuit that Trump “will suffer irreparable harm” if he must pay Carroll now because she has said publicly that she plans to give the award away, meaning the president would not be able to recover the money if the high court reverses the verdict.

Smith said there was a “reasonable probability” that the Supreme Court will take up an appeal in part based on Trump’s insistence that he has absolute immunity from a lawsuit stemming from statements he made while he was president.

Just a bonkers legal system we have.

[-] fodor@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

They can say that but of course he might die. So if he doesn't pay before he dies then she might not be able to collect. So I don't think they have much of a case here.

[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Wouldn't his estate have to pay?

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

He is planning on giving it all away to charity

[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Well he can claim that certainly, but that's not how Estates work. Bequeaths come after debts.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

He still hasn't paid that? WTF? There is no enforcement for anything anymore? Hey everyone...grab your looting bags...it's on!!

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Oh he won't ever pay what he owes. Cops like him and he's going to fight anything tooth and nail claiming he's being politically persecuted

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 15 points 1 week ago

Well, Chewbacca was a wookie from Endor, but there are no wookies on Endor, so obviously the judgment must be thrown out

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Oh fuck. It’s Johnnie Cochran! I agree, this does not. Make. Sense!

[-] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Not the Chewbacca Defense!!!

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] sepi@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

... Hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory ...

Trump's version of praying?

this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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