The Department of Justice and the lawyers of President Donald Trump requested on Friday to a Federal Court of Appeals in New York that delay the oral arguments scheduled for next week in Trump’s appeal of his defamation case of $ 83 million.
Trump is appealing to a 2024 verdict ordering him to pay the former columnist of E. Jean Carroll $ 83 million for defame it in 2019 when he denied his accusation that he sexually assaulted her in the costume of a department store by Bergdorf Goodman in the mid -1990s. Trump has denied all the accusations.
On Wednesday, a panel of three judges of the Second Court of Appeals of the United States Circuit rejected Trump’s attempt that the government replaces it as part in the case, and its lawyers now argue that they should be allowed to appeal before oral arguments take place on June 24.
“The United States and President Trump have the right to an immediate review of the erroneous decision of the Westfall Law of the Panel by this Banc Court and, if necessary, by the Supreme Court,” said a joint presentation of Trump and the Department of Justice on Friday.
President Donald Trump goes out to talk to journalists after signing a commercial agreement with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during the G7 leaders summit, June 16, 2025 in Kananaskis, Alberta.
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The lawyers of the Department of Justice say that since part of Trump’s alleged conduct in the case fell within the scope of his role as president, the Department of Justice should be able to defend him in the Court.
“The attorney general certified that President Trump was acting within the reach of his federal office or employment at the time of his 2017 statements, made of the White House, from which the claiming-rapid claims arose. As a result, the United States should have been replaced as accused instead of President Trump,” they argued in Friday’s presentation.
The second circuit last week confirmed a separate damage award from $ 5 million to Carroll that Trump must pay.
