D.C. Court of Appeals to hear arguments in defamation case against Trump

The D.C. Court of Appeals on Tuesday will hear arguments on whether Donald Trump was acting within his job as president when he denied a writer’s allegation that he sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s — a legal question that is key to whether the writer’s defamation lawsuit against Trump can move forward. Lawyers for the New York-based writer E. Jean Carroll argue that Trump acted as a private citizen when he denied raping Carroll, and therefore can be sued like anyone else. Trump’s lawyers argue that his responses were...