skip to contentAdvertisementIn a filing before the apex court on Monday, Trump’s lawyers argued that allegations leading to a verdict by the jury in the $5 million civil case were “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings".By: Express Web Desk November 11, 2025 06:06 AM IST First published on: Nov 11, 2025 at 06:06 AM IST ShareWhatsapptwitterFacebookE. Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan federal court, in New York. (AP)US President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s verdict in a $5 million civil lawsuit wherein it was found that president sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s, AP reported.In a filing before the apex court on Monday, Trump’s lawyers argued that allegations leading to a verdict by the jury in the $5 million civil case were “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings” that allowed Carroll’s lawyers to present “highly inflammatory propensity evidence” against him.In 2024, a federal appeal’s court upheld the $5 million verdict by a jury related to sexual abuse and defamation allegation made against President Trump by writer Carroll, ruling that the trial judge did not make any error in judgement that warrants for a new trial. In June, Trump also lost an effort to have the appeal reviewed by a full bench, CNN reported.The Trump administration argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the civil trial, made several errors in judgement, including to allow the jury to hear two women’s testimony who alleged that Trump sexually assaulted them years ago.During a trial in 2023, Carroll, a longtime advice columnist and former TV talk show host, claimed that Trump violently attacked her in a dressing room in 1996 at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury retailer across the street from Trump Tower. Trump denied the allegations and made comments against Carroll in October 2022, which the jury considered as liable for defaming the columnist.“President Trump has clearly and consistently denied that this supposed incident ever occurred. No physical or DNA evidence corroborates Carroll’s story. There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation,” Trump’s lawyers St. Louis, Missouri-based attorney Justin D. Smith wrote.(with inputs from Associated Press)AdvertisementAdvertisementLoading Taboola...