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The Supreme Court on Monday morning added six new cases to its argument docket for the 2026-27 term and turned down President Donald Trump\u2019s request to take up his appeal of a $5 million award against him in a lawsuit brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll. The announcements came as part of a from the justices\u2019 private conference on Thursday, June 25. That conference was the final regularly scheduled conference before the justices\u2019 summer recess; the justices met again on Monday and are expected to release orders from that conference sometime this week, possibly as soon as Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Carroll, a journalist known for writing a popular advice column for Elle for 27 years, filed her lawsuit in 2022. She alleged that Trump had sexually abused her in a dressing room at a New York department store in 1996 and that he had defamed her in a 2022 social media post calling her accusations, among other things, a \u201ccomplete con job\u201d and a \u201cHoax.\u201d Carroll relied on a New York state law enacted that year, which gave adult victims of sexual abuse one year to sue their abusers, even if it would have otherwise been too late to do so.<\/p>\n

A jury in 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll and awarded her $5 million. Trump appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, which upheld the verdict and later declined to reconsider the case.<\/p>\n

Trump came to the Supreme Court in November 2025, asking the justices to weigh in. that he had \u201cclearly and consistently denied that this supposed incident ever occurred,\u201d Trump contended that the lower courts should not have allowed Carroll\u2019s lawyers to introduce three pieces of evidence: testimony by two women, Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff, who alleged in 2016 that Trump had assaulted them \u2013 on an airplane in 1979 and at Trump\u2019s home in Florida in 2005; and the \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d tape \u2013 a 2005 recording that surfaced shortly before the 2016 election, in which Trump bragged about grabbing women by their genitals.<\/p>\n

Carroll , and Trump does not contest, that even if the district court had been wrong to admit the three pieces of evidence, it ultimately wouldn\u2019t have made a difference \u201ctaking the record as a whole and considering the strength of Ms. Carroll\u2019s case.\u201d Therefore, she argued, the Supreme Court should deny review.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s petition for review was initially slated for consideration at the justices\u2019 private conference in late February, but the justices did not actually consider it until last week, when they denied it without comment.<\/p>\n

The court granted six petitions for review, on topics ranging from election law to parental rights. They are:<\/p>\n