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格雷厄姆·凯茨 记者
格雷厄姆·凯茨是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻数字部负责刑事司法、隐私问题和信息安全的调查记者。可通过KatesG@cbsnews.com或grahamkates@protonmail.com联系格雷厄姆。
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雅各布·罗森 司法部记者
杰克·罗森是负责报道美国司法部的记者。此前他曾担任竞选数字记者，报道特朗普总统2024年竞选活动，还曾担任《玛格丽特·布伦南与本周访谈》节目副制片人。
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在未能免于向作家伊·让·卡罗尔支付500万美元性虐待和诽谤赔偿金的两周后，特朗普总统已请求最高法院推翻她此前对他获得的另一项8330万美元的诽谤判决。
针对特朗普的这两项判决均出自2023年和2024年的联邦民事审判。在首场审判中，陪审团根据优势证据认定特朗普在1990年代的一次碰面中性侵了卡罗尔，并在卡罗尔2019年公开指控后对其进行了诽谤。
在第二场审判中，特朗普因在首届总统任期内发表的相关否认言论被判承担责任，其中包括称卡罗尔为“疯子”，并声称他从未见过她。他在公开露面、社交媒体帖文和法庭上重复了类似的否认言论，这一模式被卡罗尔的律师在庭审中援引。
卡罗尔的律师罗伯塔·卡普兰曾请求陪审团判给卡罗尔足够赔偿，以“让他停止”诽谤其当事人。而特朗普至今仍否认对她的指控。
在周二提交的诉状中，特朗普的法律团队辩称，上诉法庭未能就特朗普发表相关言论时是否享有总统豁免权作出裁决，此举存在错误。
“这是我国历史上首例法院因总统在任期间的行为判令其承担损害赔偿责任的案件，”律师们写道。
目前由特朗普前刑事辩护律师托德·布兰奇领导的美国司法部支持特朗普请求最高法院审查此案的诉求。司法部辩称，根据《韦斯特福尔法案》，特朗普作为联邦雇员应免于承担法律责任。
他们辩称，特朗普“在白宫回应媒体提问时，针对直接质疑其任职资格的个人不当行为指控”发表了有关卡罗尔的言论。
卡普兰拒绝就特朗普的最新诉状置评。
卡罗尔作证称，1996年她在曼哈顿的伯格多夫·古德曼百货与特朗普偶遇时的友好闲聊，演变为在试衣间内的性侵。特朗普否认有任何不当行为，并声称他从未见过卡罗尔。
特朗普多年来试图推翻两项判决的努力均被下级上诉法院和地区法院驳回。他还曾请求最高法院重新考虑其拒绝受理针对500万美元赔偿金一案上诉的决定。卡罗尔最终在该案中获得包括利息在内的560万美元赔偿。
目前尚不清楚8330万美元判决产生了多少利息，该款项自2024年以来一直存放在法院监管账户中。
Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll case
2026-07-29T14:59:00-0400 / CBS News
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Graham Kates Reporter
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Jacob Rosen Justice Department Reporter
Jake Rosen is a reporter covering the Department of Justice. He was previously a campaign digital reporter covering President Trump’s 2024 campaign and also served as an associate producer for “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
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Two weeks after losing a bid to avoid paying the writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages for sexual abuse and defamation, President Trump has asked the Supreme Court to throw out a separate $83.3 million defamation judgment she won against him.
The two judgments against Mr. Trump came in civil federal trials in 2023 and 2024. In the first, a jury concluded a preponderance of evidence pointed to Mr. Trump’s liability for sexually abusing Carroll during a 1990s encounter, and defaming her after she went public in 2019.
In the second trial, Mr. Trump was held liable for separate denials made during his first term in office, including calling Carroll a “whack job” and claiming he had never met her. He repeated similar denials in public appearances, social media posts and in court, a pattern cited by Carroll’s attorneys during the trial.
Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, asked the jury to award Carroll enough to “make him stop” defaming her client. He has continued to deny her allegations.
In their filing Tuesday, Mr. Trump’s legal team argued that an appeals panel erred by failing to rule on whether Mr. Trump had presidential immunity when making the statements.
“This is the first case in our nation’s history in which a court has imposed damages liability on a President for his conduct in office,” the attorneys wrote.
The Justice Department, which is currently led by Mr. Trump’s former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche, supports Mr. Trump’s effort to obtain Supreme Court review of the case. It argues Mr. Trump is protected from liability by the Westfall Act, because he was acting as a federal employee.
They argue he made the statements about Carroll “from the White House, in response to press questions, denying allegations of personal misconduct directly questioning his fitness for office.”
Kaplan declined to comment on the latest Trump filing.
Carroll testified that what started as friendly banter when she bumped into Mr. Trump in 1996, at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan, led to an assault inside a dressing room. Mr. Trump has denied wrongdoing and claimed he never met Carroll.
Mr. Trump’s yearslong efforts to overturn the two verdicts have been rejected by lower appeals and district courts. He has also asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision not to consider his appeal of the $5 million case. Carroll ultimately received $5.6 million in that matter, including interest.
It is not clear how much interest has accrued on the $83.3 million judgment, which has been held in a court-controlled account since 2024.
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