Judge: US can’t replace Trump in accuser’s defamation suit

Posted on AllSides October 27th, 2020
From The Left

President Donald Trump’s request that the United States replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit, which alleges he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, was denied Tuesday by a federal judge.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan came after the Justice Department argued that the United States — and by extension the American people — should replace Trump as the defendant in a lawsuit filed by the columnist E. Jean Carroll.

The government’s lawyers contended that the United States could...

Read full story

AllSides Picks

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-new-york-lawsuits-lewis-a-kaplan-manhattan-0b0668afbbbe684bae4804ec898cdb36

More News about Justice from the Left, Center and Right

From the Left

From the Center

From the Right