A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's bid to put the writer E. Jean Carroll's second defamation case on hold, but sped up the former U.S. president's appeal.
of some of his defenses and a defamation counterclaim against the former Elle magazine columnist.
Carroll is seeking at least $10 million in damages over Trump's June 2019 denial that he raped her in a midtown Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.Another juryawarded Carroll $5 million for sexual assault and defamation, after Trump last October again denied that the rape occurred.
In seeking to put Carroll's second case on hold, Trump argued that Kaplan should have let him assert absolute presidential immunity as a defense.On Aug. 18, the judge certified
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