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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump asks Supreme Court to throw out sex abuse verdict in latest attempt to rewrite legal turmoil

Donald Trump is calling on the Supreme Court to throw out a multi-million dollar verdict after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming E Jean Carroll.

Trump’s request — among more than two dozen appeals the president and his administration have made to the nation’s highest court within the last year — calls Carroll’s case “facially implausible” and “politically motivated.”

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