{"id":4253,"date":"2026-08-01T18:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2026-08-01T18:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:37:16","slug":"court-refuses-to-reconsider-trumps-most-embarrassing-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4253","title":{"rendered":"Court refuses to reconsider Trump&#8217;s most embarrassing conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump a loss on Wednesday in his quest for the entire court to re-hear his appeal in the $83 million E. Jean Carroll civil defamation case.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4251\">Trump\u2019s \u2018economic revival\u2019 falls flat as donor\u2019s factory closes up shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CNN reports that the court\u2019s decision now allows the president to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his claims arguing presidential immunity. The high court established broad criminal immunity for all presidents in 2024 for official acts.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of judges earlier had affirmed a jury verdict that Trump had defamed Carroll in 2022 when he \u201cdenied her allegations of sexual assault, said she wasn\u2019t his type, and suggested she made up the allegations to sell copies of her new book,\u201d according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the following year, a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation \u201cover an alleged assault that occurred in the mid-1990s at a New York department store and for statements he made in 2019 denying it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4249\">\u2018Congrats to Republicans\u2019: Trump just threw another wrench in GOP midterm plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has argued that the U.S. Department of Justice should have been substituted for him as the defendant. Since the DOJ cannot be sued for defamation, the case would have been ended.<\/p>\n<p>Courthouse News adds that the majority of judges on Wednesday \u201cconcluded the court had correctly held that presidential immunity is waivable and that had Trump indeed waived it in the Carroll case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf any other litigant had failed to raise an affirmative defense in this way, there would be no question as to whether he waived his right to assert it,\u201d U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=4247\">New theory exposes why Trump hasn\u2019t targeted his biggest legal nemesis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has denied all wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has argued that the U.S. Department of Justice should have been substituted for him as the defendant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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