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Trump seeks to halt payment to E. Jean Carroll in hope of eventual Supreme Court win

South China Morning Post 06 May 2026 8h ago
Trump seeks to halt payment to E. Jean Carroll in hope of eventual Supreme Court win
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US President Donald Trump’s lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, has asked a federal appeal court in New York to temporarily block a long-time columnist from collecting a US$83 million defamation award. The lawyer, Justin D. Smith, told the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing on Tuesday to stay its decision supporting the award so that Trump will not have to pay writer E.
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