Appeals court rejects Trump’s use of presidential immunity in E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit | CNN Politics
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A federal appeals court rejected Donald Trump’s use of presidential immunity in a bid to dismiss a civil defamation lawsuit brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.

A federal appeals court rejected Donald Trump’s use of presidential immunity in a bid to dismiss a civil defamation lawsuit brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.

The judges found that Trump waived using presidential immunity as a defense by not raising it earlier in the litigation over Carroll’s claim that Trump defamed her when, as president, he denied her allegations of sexual assault. The appeals court also affirmed the lower court’s ruling that rejected Trump’s motion for summary judgement.

“This case presents a vexing question of first impression: whether presidential immunity is waivable. We answer in the affirmative and further hold that Donald J. Trump (‘Defendant’) waived the defense of presidential immunity by failing to raise it as an affirmative defense in his answer to E. Jean Carroll’s (‘Plaintiff’s’) complaint, which alleged that Defendant defamed her by claiming that she had fabricated her account of Defendant sexually assaulting her in the mid1990s.,” the court ruled.

  • FlashMobOfOne
    -22•7 months ago

    How so?

    There haven’t been any real consequences for anything he’s done, unless you count a mugshot.

    And, thanks to Biden just ignoring the poor and middle class, he stands a very real chance of reelection.

      • FlashMobOfOne
        -9•7 months ago

        If you don’t want to hear valid critiques of Democratic governance, then do better.

        • Grayox
          6•7 months ago

          They literally had the thinnest majority in the Senate including the poison pills that are Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. They cant carry out any of their platform with Republicans stabding in staunch opposition of anything that helps people more than shareholders.

          • FlashMobOfOne
            -11•7 months ago

            Now see.

            That is where Democrats truly excel: making excuses.

            I’m not sure how you sat through four years of Trump and still believe that Biden is somehow magically powerless.

          • FlashMobOfOne
            -9•7 months ago

            If kids could eat excuses there would be no such thing as student lunch debt, but since Democrats don’t do their job, there is.

              • FlashMobOfOne
                -5•7 months ago

                Actually, no.

                I’m giving Democrats proper credit for doing jack shit about it when we gave them power.

                I don’t differentiate between perpetrator and collaborator when the net result is the same.

                  • FlashMobOfOne
                    -4•7 months ago

                    All you’ve done is make the same excuses Democrats do, and yet, you still expect me to vote for them after doing so.

                    No wonder people think voting doesn’t change anything.