President Donald Trump plans to ask the Supreme Court to grant him presidential immunity from writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit.
Trump asked the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to allow him to bring the case to the Supreme Court, according to a Tuesday court filing. The president argued he would suffer irreparable damage if he had to pay Carroll the $83.3 million a civil jury ordered him to pay in the suit, which dealt with the social media attacks and public comments he made about Carroll after she accused him of sexual assault.
“If execution on the judgment were allowed, it is very unlikely that any money could be recovered because Carroll has publicly said that she plans to give away any money that she receives from this lawsuit,” Trump’s personal attorney Justin Smith wrote to the court.