No presidential immunity for Trump in E. Jean Carroll defamation case, appeals court rules
Posted on AllSides December 13th, 2023
From The Left
• Ruling addresses second defamation case from E. Jean Carroll tied to sexual assault allegations. Donald Trump can't point to his time in the White House in an effort to duck a civil defamation lawsuit tied to sexual assault allegations because he waited too long to claim presidential immunity, an appeals court ruled Wednesday. The case concerns Trump's denial in 2019, while he was president, of having sexually assaulted journalist and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s. In a separate civil case, Trump was ordered to pay Carroll...