The Supreme Court on Monday declined President Trump’s request to reconsider its denial of review for a $5 million civil judgment against him in the case brought by journalist E. Jean Carroll.
The decision came as part of the second of three scheduled “summer order lists.” The high court provided no explanation for denying Trump’s petition, and there were no dissents reported.
Carroll filed her lawsuit in 2022 alleging that in 1996 President Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York department store dressing room and later defamed her after she went public with the allegations.
After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the jury’s verdict, President Trump appealed to the Supreme Court. In a petition filed in November 2025, he argued that Carroll should not have been allowed to introduce testimony from other women who alleged similar assaults against him and the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape in which President Trump made statements about grabbing women by their genitals.
Carroll urged the justices to deny Trump’s appeal, arguing that even if the introduction of evidence was improper, her case remained strong.
Although the Supreme Court initially scheduled consideration of Trump’s original petition for review at its February 20, 2026, conference, it postponed it until June 25 and denied it four days later.
President Trump returned to the court on July 8, seeking reconsideration of its decision. He contended that Carroll’s lawyers had relied on statements President Trump made while president and argued that a second petition for review filed on July 28—a lawsuit that resulted in an $83 million award against him—would present whether those statements constitute protected official acts. If the Supreme Court agreed with his argument, he claimed, then the statements should not have been admissible in the 2022 case.
President Trump has separately asked the court to overturn a separate $83.3 million award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024, though the high court is not expected to address that case until fall.
In a statement, President Trump’s legal team asserted: “The American people stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the witch hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll hoaxes. President Trump will keep winning against liberal lawfare, as he continues to focus on his mission to make America great again.”
The request for reconsideration was always a long shot, given the Supreme Court’s rare practice of revisiting such petitions. It marks another setback in President Trump’s efforts to contest Carroll’s claims and avoid the two separate monetary awards ordered by juries.
