Trump asks appeals court to pause ruling in E. Jean Carroll case pending a Supreme Court decision

President Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court to pause its ruling rejecting his challenge to E. Jean Carroll’s $83 million defamation case against him as he looks to take the case to the Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to pause its ruling rejecting his challenge to E. Jean Carroll’s $83 million defamation case against him as he looks to take the case to the Supreme Court.

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Trump asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to halt its ruling so he can present questions relating to presidential immunity and the Westfall Act to the high court.

Carroll, a writer, won the damages after a federal jury decided that Trump defamed her when he repeatedly denied her accusation that he sexually abused her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996.