Move follows supreme court refusal to hear Trump’s appeal of civil case verdict in sexual abuse and defamation case
The New York journalist E Jean Carroll asked a judge on Tuesday to mandate that Donald Trump pay her the $5m she is owed from a jury verdict that found the US president liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s and defaming her after she publicly described in 2019 being attacked by him in a city department store.
Lawyers for Carroll filed papers in a federal court in Manhattan one day after the US supreme court refused to hear Trump’s appeal of the civil case verdict in 2023.
The author and advice columnist argues in the filing that Trump is unjustly trying to delay even further releasing the funds to her, after he has made repeated challenges to the civil jury’s decision.
Why the fuck does she have to ask
She’s asking the lower appeals court to speed up the process of finalizing the appeal judgement in her favor.
When a circuit appeals court makes a decision, that decision doesn’t become final until a separate piece of paper called the “mandate” is issued.
If she didn’t make this request the mandate would be issued anyway within a certain time frame, like 30 days or so. She just wants it to happen faster.
It sounds like Trump is thinking about annoying the supreme court with a motion to reconsider. If he does that, he would also file a counter motion in the circuit court to delay the mandate issuance.
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