@ladymitopinion.bsky.social:
Is there some precedent we are trying to uphold by not removing Donald Trump from the highest office in the land when we have more than enough proof for financial crimes, sexual abuse crimes, and treason?
Because, if not, then what the fuck?
@therickydavila.bsky.social:
I’ll never forget superstar singer-songwriter Pink saying that people who still support the orange felon at this point are an insult to humanity, goodness and human rights.
And I couldn’t agree more.
U.S. Supreme Court again rejects Trump appeal in E. Jean Carroll case by Andrew Chung, Reuters, Aug 17, 2026, The Globe and Mail
Rebuffing President Donald Trump for a second time, the U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear his appeal of a US$5-million verdict in favour of E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine columnist.
The justices rejected Trump’s request to reconsider their previous decision in June denying his appeal of the 2023 jury verdict stemming from allegations that he raped her in the 1990s in a Manhattan department store’s dressing room. Trump’s lawyers contend that the trial was unfair.
The Supreme Court is also weighing the Republican president’s appeal of a separate US$83.3-million jury verdict for defaming Carroll in 2019 during his first term as president, when he denied the claims and asserted that she lied about the accusations.
Trump’s lawyers in that appeal argue that presidential immunity shields him from Carroll’s claims and that lower courts wrongly decided that he had forfeited that defence.
Trump has been battling Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, ever since she published an excerpt from her memoir in 2019 in which she alleged that Trump had raped her around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
Trump pays over $5-million owed to E. Jean Carroll for sex abuse case
Trump denied Carroll’s claims and asserted that she lied both in 2019 and again in 2022, while he was out of office.
The case that led to the US$5-million verdict concerned Trump’s statements in 2022 when he called Carroll’s claim a “hoax” and a “con job” in a post on social media.
Jurors in that case decided in 2023 that Trump had sexually abused Carroll and defamed her, but did not find that Trump raped Carroll, as she had claimed.
Following the Supreme Court’s denial in June of Trump’s appeal in the case, Carroll collected nearly US$5.63-million from Trump. The payout represents the original US$5-million civil verdict, plus interest.
In Trump’s request for rehearing, his lawyers said that the issue of presidential immunity in the case that led to the US$83.3-million verdict that a jury reached in 2024 – which the justices still could decide to take up – could impact the 2023 verdict as well.
The Supreme Court in a landmark 2024 decision ruled that former presidents have full immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken in office that were within their core constitutional powers 
is rape a presidential power, constitutional or not? as president. The Carroll cases are civil lawsuits.
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