The D.C. Court of Appeals on Thursday said it would not be the decision-maker in an appeal brought by former President Donald Trump in writer E. Jean Carroll’s 2019 defamation lawsuit against him.
Trump had asked the appellate court to shield him from the first of two lawsuits he faces from Carroll, which accused him of slandering her from the White House when she publicly accused him of raping her in the mid-1990s. Trump called Carroll a liar and infamously denied sexually assaulting her because she was not his “type.”
President Joe Biden’s Justice Department has continued to defend Trump in that argument, maintaining it’s not him it’s trying to protect but federal employees from being sued.
