Trump requests Supreme Court overturn E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation verdict

President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to review a $5 million civil judgment finding him liable for sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll.

In 2023, a jury returned the judgment after finding Trump liable for sexual abuse, following Carroll’s allegations that Trump assaulted her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in 1996 and then defamed her during his first term by calling her allegations a “hoax” and a “scam.”

“There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, no police reports, and no investigation,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in their Supreme Court filing.

“Instead, Carroll waited more than 20 years to falsely accuse Donald Trump, whom she politically opposes, until he became the 45th president, when she could cause him the most political harm and profit from it,” the filing adds.

It is not yet known whether the High Court will take up the civil case.

CNN first reported on Trump’s legal case.

A spokesperson for Trump’s outside legal team said in a statement regarding the filing: “The American people stand with President Trump as he demands an immediate end to all witch hunts, including the Democrat-funded parody of the Carroll hoaxes. President Trump will continue to win against liberal law, while continuing to focus on his mission to make America great again.”

Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, declined to comment to NBC News last night.

Last year, a federal appeals court upheld the ruling after Trump argued that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the case, erred in allowing testimony from two women — Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff — whose sexual abuse allegations Trump had denied.

A panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in December last year that Kaplan did not “abuse his discretion” in allowing their testimony.

Trump also asked the appeals court for a rehearing of the case in June, which was denied.

Trump has repeatedly called for the judgments in Carroll’s cases against him to be overturned. Another appeal Trump filed last year to overturn the $83 million defamation judgment against Carroll, in a case related to his defamatory comments about him while president and after the $5 million verdict, failed in September.