"Donald Trump now cannot claim presidential immunity to get off the hook from paying $83.3m in damages to the writer E Jean Carroll, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, upholding a jury's 2024 award against the president for defamation. Trump's lawyers had pointed to the supreme court's ruling last year saying the president has immunity for official acts to argue that the damages should be overturned."
"At an earlier stage in the case, they also concluded Trump had waived his right to argue presidential immunity because he had not raised it earlier. We conclude that Trump has failed to identify any grounds that would warrant reconsidering our prior holding on presidential immunity, the panel wrote. A case involving the criminal prosecution of a former President, did not alter the prevailing law on whether presidential immunity can be waived."
A federal appeals court for the Second Circuit upheld an $83.3 million defamation damages award against Donald Trump in favor of E. Jean Carroll, rejecting arguments that presidential immunity shields him from liability. The unanimous three-judge panel found the jury's damages reasonable given the extraordinary and egregious facts. The court previously held that Trump waived any presidential-immunity defense by failing to raise it earlier and determined that a separate criminal prosecution case did not change waiver law. The panel also recently affirmed a separate $5 million verdict related to similar defamation and sexual-assault allegations.
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