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唐纳德·特朗普总统与E.让·卡罗尔
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美国总统唐纳德·特朗普于周二敦促最高法院再次介入他与杂志专栏作家E.让·卡罗尔之间错综复杂的法律纠纷，就一起8330万美元的诽谤陪审团判决提起上诉，理由是作为总统，他享有诉讼豁免权。
这起尚未在最高法院立案的上诉，很大程度上依据了法院2024年作出的一项裁决：总统在任内的行为享有广泛豁免权。
据美国有线电视新闻网查阅到的上诉文件副本显示，特朗普的律师向最高法院表示：“这是我国历史上首例法院判令总统为其在任内行为承担损害赔偿责任的案件。然而，在维持这项高达8330万美元的诽谤判决时，第二巡回上诉法院甚至从未裁定总统豁免权是否适用。”
特朗普告诉大法官们，上诉法院作出的有利于卡罗尔的裁决“不仅会对本届总统和未来历任总统造成重大损害，也会损害整个国家”。
除了主张自己应享有诉讼豁免权外，特朗普还请求法院审查本案被告是否应为美国政府而非总统本人。
他的律师向法院表示：“本案中，美国总统被判令支付近1亿美元赔偿金……只因他在白宫发布新闻稿、回答记者提问，为自己是否适合任职的指控进行辩护。”
卡罗尔的律师拒绝置评。
此次上诉提出前几周，最高法院曾拒绝受理特朗普的另一桩相关案件。在那起案件中，特朗普试图推翻一项500万美元的民事判决，该判决认定他于上世纪90年代在伯格多夫·古德曼百货商场性侵并诽谤卡罗尔。
特朗普在两起案件中均否认有不当行为。
这起新的上诉涉及特朗普2019年针对卡罗尔发表的言论，当时他仍担任总统。陪审团认定这些言论构成诽谤，并判令他支付8300万美元赔偿金。联邦上诉法院合议庭维持了该赔偿裁决，认为“结合本案非同寻常且极其恶劣的事实，该赔偿额合理”，并驳回了特朗普提出的多项法律异议。其中，上诉法院认定特朗普此前已放弃任何总统豁免权的主张，并表示最高法院2024年涉及总统豁免权的裁决并未改变其判决立场。
美国第二巡回上诉法院全体法官于4月底拒绝重新审理该案。
当时，支持卡罗尔的一名上诉法院法官写道，特朗普提出豁免权主张的时机过晚。
“总统豁免权在本案最初三年都未被提及，”由奥巴马总统提名的美国巡回法官陈卓兰写道。陈卓兰还驳回了特朗普将美国替换为被告的请求，他写道：“没有其他被告会被允许在审判结束且对其作出判决15个月后，动议将美国替换为被告。”
特朗普和美国司法部当时均表示，将向最高法院提起上诉。总统称，他将提出总统在任期间“官方行为”引发的民事索赔享有豁免权。
美国司法部表示，计划根据《韦斯特福尔法案》介入此案，由政府接手辩护。该法案保护联邦公职人员因履行公务时的行为免受侵权诉讼。通常情况下，这可能意味着联邦纳税人将为雇员的行为承担责任，但在本案中，这几乎肯定会终结卡罗尔的诽谤诉讼。
由于最高法院夏季休庭，它要到秋季才会审议总统的上诉。如果法院同意受理此案，判决结果可能要到明年6月才会公布。
卡罗尔声称，特朗普2019年否认对其实施性侵、称她“不是自己喜欢的类型”，并指控她编造性侵故事以提升新书销量，这些言论构成诽谤。
特朗普在去年提交的那起涉及500万美元判决的上诉案件中告诉最高法院：“没有目击者、视频证据，也没有警方报告或调查。相反，卡罗尔等了20多年才虚假指控政治对手唐纳德·特朗普，直到他成为第45任总统后，她才提出指控，以便最大限度地对特朗普造成政治伤害并为自己牟利。”
与此同时，特朗普仍在就另一桩涉及卡罗尔的500万美元案件进行抗争。最高法院在搁置特朗普的上诉数月后，于上月任期最后几天驳回了该上诉。特朗普提出了希望最高法院重新审议该判决的渺茫请求，但一名联邦法官已下令将款项支付给卡罗尔。
本文已更新补充更多细节。
Trump urges Supreme Court to overturn E. Jean Carroll’s $83M defamation verdict
2026-07-28T22:50:15.614Z / CNN
By Kara Scannell, John Fritze
Updated 31 min ago
Updated Jul 28, 2026, 7:29 PM ET
PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2026, 6:50 PM ET
President Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to once again step into his messy legal brawl with magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, appealing an $83.3 million jury verdict for defamation on the grounds that, as president, he is immune from the litigation.
The appeal, which has not yet been docketed at the high court, relies heavily on the court’s 2024 decision granting the president wide immunity for actions taken in office.
“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,” Trump’s attorneys told the high court, according to a copy of the appeal reviewed by CNN. “Yet, in upholding the exorbitant $83.3 million defamation judgment here, the Second Circuit never even decided whether presidential immunity applies.”
Trump told the justices that an appeals court decision in Carroll’s favor would “cause significant damage, not only to this president and future presidents” but also the nation.
In addition to raising the prospect that Trump should be immune from the litigation, Trump is also asking the court to review whether the United States government should be the defendant rather than the president.
“Here, the president of the United States has been ordered to pay nearly $100 million in damages … for issuing a press release and answering reporters’ questions, from the White House, defending against attacks on his fitness for office,” his attorneys told the court.
Attorneys for Carroll declined to comment.
The latest appeal comes weeks after the Supreme Court declined to take up a separate case from Trump in which the president is seeking to unwind a $5 million civil verdict that found he sexually abused and defamed Carroll at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the 1990s.
Trump has denied wrongdoing in both cases.
The new appeal involves statements Trump made against Carroll in 2019, when he was president, that a jury found were defamatory and ordered him to pay $83 million in damages. A federal appeals court panel affirmed the damages award, finding it “reasonable in light of the extraordinary and egregious facts” and rejected several of Trump’s legal challenges. Among them, the appeals court found that Trump had previously waived any claim of presidential immunity and said the Supreme Court’s decision in 2024 involving presidential immunity did not alter their view.
The full 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals declined to revisit that decision in late April.
At that time, one of the appeals court judges who sided with Carroll wrote that Trump had first brought up his immunity claims far too late in the litigation.
“Presidential immunity was not raised for the first three years of this case,” wrote US Circuit Judge Denny Chin, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama. Chin also resisted Trump’s effort to have the United States substituted as a defendant, writing that “no other defendant would be permitted to move to substitute the United States in his place, fifteen months after trial and the entry of judgment against him.”
Both Trump and the Department of Justice signaled at that time that they would appeal to the Supreme Court. The president said he would raise claims of immunity from civil claims for “official acts” as president.
The Justice Department said that it intended to intervene to effectively take over the case under the Westfall Act, which shields individual federal employees from tort suits for actions taken while they were engaged with their official duties. Normally, that might put federal taxpayers on the hook for an employee’s actions, though in this case it would almost certainly mean the end of Carroll’s defamation case.
Because the Supreme Court is not in session over the summer, it will not consider the president’s appeal until the fall. If it agrees to hear the case, then it would not likely hand down a decision until next June.
Carroll claims Trump defamed her when, in 2019, he denied the assault, said she wasn’t his type, and claimed she made it up to boost sales of a book.
“There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation,” Trump told the Supreme Court in the appeal he filed last year in the case involving the $5 million verdict. “Instead, Carroll waited more than 20 years to falsely accuse Donald Trump, who she politically opposes, until after he became the 45th president, when she could maximize political injury to him and profit for herself.”
Trump, meanwhile, is continuing to fight a separate, $5 million case involving Carroll. After sitting on Trump’s appeal in that matter for months, the court denied it during the final days of its term last month. Trump has made a long-shot request for the high court to reconsider that decision but a federal judge ordered the release of the money to Carroll.
This story has been updated with additional details.