Court puts off deciding whether to consider $5 million verdict against Trump (opens in new tab)

When the justices meet for their private conference on Thursday, there is one high-profile petition for review they will not consider, even though it has been fully briefed since late January: an appeal by President Donald Trump seeking review of the $5 million jury verdict entered against him in the sexual abuse and defamation case filed by journalist E\. Jean Carroll\. Carroll filed the lawsuit that led to the verdict in a federal court in New York in 2022\. She contended that in 1996 Trump...