Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn E Jean Carroll case verdict

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a jury’s civil lawsuit verdict that he sexually abused and later defamed former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll.Trump’s lawyers argued in a filing that allegations leading to the $5 million verdict were "propped up" by a "series of indefensible evidentiary rulings" that allowed Carroll's lawyers to present "highly inflammatory propensity evidence" against him."President Trump has clearly and consistently denied that this supposed incident ever occurred," Justin Smith, one of Trump’s lawyers, and his co-counsel wrote in the filing, a