Former President Donald Trump is in court again, this time in his second trial for defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll. A jury will determine whether he needs to pay more for additional defamation, and how much.
Former President Donald Trump is in court again, this time in his second trial for defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll . In the first trial, which ended in May 2023, a federal jury found Trump had “sexually abused” her and defamed her when he denied her allegations and ordered him to pay US$5 million in damages. A jury in this trial will determine whether he needs to pay more for additional defamation, and how much. U.S.
District Judge Lewis Kaplan has spoken to both Trump and Alina Habba, Trump’s chief lawyer in this case, about their conduct in the courtroom – Trump for speaking out loudly from the defense table and Habba for apparently disregarding general principles of practicing law. To understand more about what’s going on in this courtroom, The Conversation U.S. spoke with John E. Jones III, the president of Dickinson College, who is a retired federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate in 200
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