2026-06-22T16:33:28.543Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/supreme-court-e-jean-carroll-donald-trump-appeal
- 自今年2月以来，最高法院已将特朗普总统对E·让·卡罗尔500万美元裁决的上诉重排议程达15次。
- 此次延误使陪审团裁决的赔偿款延迟了三年多，与此同时美国司法部对卡罗尔展开了刑事调查。
- 特朗普的律师团队已暗示即将提起第二次上诉，这可能将最高法院的任何裁决推迟到秋季。
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就在最高法院大法官们准备于2月27日闭门会议前，摆在他们面前的是一起涉及唐纳德·特朗普总统的爆炸性案件。特朗普正试图推翻联邦陪审团作出的其性侵并诽谤杂志专栏作家E·让·卡罗尔的裁决。
但就在大法官们举行那次闭门会议的前一天，特朗普的这起上诉案件被无理由撤回。
自那以来，特朗普于去年11月首次提起的这起政治敏感度极高的上诉案件，虽被列入法院议程，却已被重排15次。据CNN分析，本届任期内仅有另一起案件被如此频繁地重排议程。
自特朗普七个月前提起上诉以来，这位总统又输掉了另一起涉及卡罗尔的8300万美元赔偿案，而美国司法部也已对这位杂志专栏作家展开刑事调查。
美国最高法院几乎从不解释其对待上诉案件的处理方式，在卡罗尔案中也同样如此。此次延误的原因可能是一名或多名大法官正在就该案撰写意见书，也可能是法院正在等待其他涉及特朗普与卡罗尔纠纷的上诉案件提交。
无论原因为何，此次延误都对特朗普有利——部分原因在于，纽约陪审团三年多前判给卡罗尔的500万美元赔偿款至今仍未支付。
“这里的反常之处不仅在于法院将卡罗尔案其中一起上诉重排了15次，还在于法院没有给出任何有说服力的理由，”乔治城大学法学院、同时担任CNN最高法院分析师的史蒂夫·弗拉德克说道。
弗拉德克表示，最合乎逻辑的解释是，法院正在等待其他预期中的上诉案件，尽管这些案件涉及不同的法律问题。
“另一种唯一的解释是，法院对特朗普总统存在某种特殊关照——但这存在一个问题，即至少就本案而言，争议行为发生在他任职总统之前，”弗拉德克说道。
卡罗尔于2019年以诽谤罪起诉特朗普，2022年，在纽约州通过一项允许性虐待受害者就过往事件提起民事索赔的法律后，她再次以诽谤和性侵为由起诉特朗普。一个不同寻常的细节是，2022年提起的第二起案件率先进入审判程序，陪审团最终判给卡罗尔500万美元赔偿。这起案件目前已提交至最高法院待审。
2019年提起的第一起案件随后进入审判程序，特朗普被判支付8300万美元赔偿金。该案件预计将于未来几日提交至最高法院。
加上利息，特朗普欠卡罗尔的款项总额已超过1亿美元。
卡罗尔在2022年的诉讼中指控特朗普于1990年代中期在纽约一家百货商场性侵她，并声称特朗普为抬高某本书的销量而编造故事诽谤她。特朗普多次否认存在不当行为，他主张负责此次民事审判的刘易斯·卡普兰地区法官存在多处错误，其中包括允许陪审团听取另外两名女性的证词，这两人均指控特朗普多年前曾性侵她们。
特朗普还辩称，法官不应允许陪审团观看《走进好莱坞》录音录像带，录像中2005年的特朗普在未经加密的麦克风前称自己会抚摸和亲吻女性。
“你知道我天生就被美女吸引——我会直接上去亲吻她们。这就像磁石一样。只管亲就是了。我甚至不等对方反应。而且如果你是名人，他们会任由你这么做。你想干什么都行……抓住她们的下体。你想干什么都行，”录音中可以听到特朗普如此说道。
卡普兰法官认定，该录音与案件相关，陪审团有权听取该证据，因为它增加了特朗普“事实上曾在未经对方同意的情况下接触女性生殖器，或曾试图这样做”的可能性。
去年，美国第二巡回上诉法院维持了对特朗普的500万美元陪审团裁决，裁定审判法官未出现足以启动重审的错误。2025年6月，特朗普试图请求由全体法官组成的上诉法院复审该上诉请求，但未获成功。数月后，他向最高法院提起上诉。
“在历史性的总统任期内，特朗普总统不得不将注意力从作为行政首长的独特且核心职责上转移开，继续与陈年的虚假指控以及这场毫无根据的诉讼中的诸多不公做斗争，这对我们共和国的结构造成了严重损害，”总统的律师团队在1月份提交给最高法院的文件中写道。“这种对待总统的方式绝不能被容忍。”
在敦促最高法院驳回该案时，卡罗尔的律师团队辩称，地区法院在处理证据方面是在其司法权限范围内行事。
在最高法院提交的一份涉及证据规则的高度技术性的辩护状中，卡罗尔的律师团队主要围绕第二巡回上诉法院维持原判的裁决展开论述。
“法院的职责仅仅是判定陪审团是否能够合理地依据优势证据认定特朗普先生实施了性侵行为，”由民主党总统任命的三名法官组成的第二巡回上诉法院合议庭一致裁决道。“如果可以认定，那么法院有权采纳该证据。”
这些书面辩护已于1月底全部提交至最高法院。
而从那时起，延误便开始了。
在10月至6月的本届任期内，最高法院大法官每周都会举行一次闭门会议，讨论是否受理或驳回待上诉案件。受理案件需要四名大法官同意。
但出于多种不同原因，上诉案件往往会被多次延后。例如，在首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨任期内，法院几乎总是会将上诉案件延后至至少第二次会议再讨论，之后才会安排口头辩论。有时，案件会被反复列会讨论却最终被无理由驳回。
有时，案件会被延后，以便给大法官留出时间就驳回案件的决定提出异议。有时，大法官们似乎在等待类似案件从下级法院上诉至最高法院。通常情况下，延后的原因并不透明。
通常，当案件被延后时，它会被“重新列入”未来的会议议程。例如，自去年12月以来，最高法院已多次将涉及地方禁止攻击性武器和大容量弹匣的多起上诉案件重新列会讨论。
但卡罗尔案的不同之处在于，总统的上诉被不断“重排议程”。这意味着该案至少在正式层面上根本没有被讨论过。
去年，法院将一起涉及联邦政府在原住民土地上起诉犯罪的广泛权力的案件重排议程达17次，将其推迟至夏季休会后审理。最终，该上诉请求被驳回。
仅有一起案件的重排次数与卡罗尔案相同。那起案件涉及俄亥俄州一名住房警察开枪打死一名持枪逃跑的嫌疑人，同样被重排了15次。
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卡罗尔的律师团队拒绝置评。特朗普的法律团队援引了此前针对该案的评论，特朗普在评论中称卡罗尔的指控是“虚假的”和“自由派的法律战”。
自该案被列入最高法院待审议程以来，特朗普与卡罗尔之间的法律斗争已发生诸多变化。美国司法部于上月对卡罗尔展开刑事调查，重点是她在与待上诉案件相关的证词中是否作伪证。
与此同时，特朗普与卡罗尔之间的第二起案件似乎即将提交至最高法院。
卡罗尔就特朗普2019年发表的有关她的言论再次起诉特朗普。纽约陪审团认定这些言论构成诽谤，并下令特朗普支付8300万美元赔偿金。联邦上诉法院合议庭维持了该赔偿裁决，称其“鉴于本案非同寻常且极其恶劣的事实，是合理的”，并驳回了特朗普的多项法律抗辩。其中，上诉法院认定特朗普此前已放弃任何总统豁免权主张，并表示最高法院2024年涉及总统豁免权的裁决并未改变其观点。
美国第二巡回上诉法院全体法官于4月下旬拒绝重新审议该裁决。
在已提交至最高法院待审的卡罗尔案中，特朗普的律师团队于6月2日致信法院，表示计划“在未来一个月内”就第二起案件向最高法院提起上诉。
“法院”，特朗普的律师团队补充道，“或许可考虑将两份请愿书合并审理。”
鉴于最高法院的日程安排规则，这一轮上诉几乎肯定会将法院是否受理或驳回卡罗尔相关案件的决定推迟到秋季。
周一，法院再次将该案列入周四的会议议程。
An explosive appeal from Trump over E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict stalls at the Supreme Court
2026-06-22T16:33:28.543Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/supreme-court-e-jean-carroll-donald-trump-appeal
- The Supreme Court has rescheduled consideration of President Trump’s appeal of a $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict 15 times since February.
- The delay has deferred the jury award for more than three years, while the Justice Department launched a criminal investigation into Carroll.
- Trump’s attorneys have signaled a second appeal is coming soon, which could push any decision from the court into the fall.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
As the justices of the Supreme Court prepared to meet behind closed doors on February 27, they had before them an explosive case involving President Donald Trump, who is seeking to overturn a federal jury’s finding that he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.
But a day before the justices held that private meeting, the Trump case was yanked without explanation.
Since then, the politically sensitive appeal, which Trump initially filed in November, has been set on the court’s agenda and rescheduled 15 times. Only one other has been rescheduled as often in the current term, according to a CNN analysis.
Since Trump filed his appeal seven months ago, the president lost a separate $83 million case involving Carroll, and the Justice Department launched a criminal investigation into the magazine columnist.
The nation’s highest court almost never explains its handling of pending appeals and has not done so in the Carroll case. The delay could be because one or more justices is writing an opinion about the case. Or the court could be waiting for other appeals involving the Trump and Carroll dispute that are expected soon.
Whatever the reason, the delay has benefited Trump — in part because it has deferred a $5 million verdict a jury in New York awarded to Carroll more than three years ago.
“The oddity here isn’t just that the court has rescheduled one of the Carroll cases 15 times, it’s the absence of a persuasive justification for it having done so,” said Steve Vladeck of the Georgetown School of Law and a CNN Supreme Court analyst.
The most logical explanation, Vladeck said, is that the court is waiting for the other expected appeals, even though the cases deal with different legal issues.
“The only other explanation is some kind of special solicitude for President Trump — which runs into the problem that this case, at least, is about conduct he engaged in when he was not in office,” Vladeck said.
Carroll sued Trump in 2019 for defamation and then she sued him again in 2022 for defamation and battery after the state enacted a law allowing the victims of sexual abuse to file civil claims for past incidents. In an unusual quirk, the second case — the one filed in 2022 — went to trial first and the jury awarded Carroll $5 million. That is the case that is already pending at the Supreme Court.
The 2019 case went to trial second and resulted in an $83 million judgment against Trump. The first case — filed in 2019 — is expected to land at the Supreme Court in the coming days.
Including interest, Trump owes Carroll over $100 million.
Carroll’s 2022 suit alleged that he sexually assaulted her in a New York department store in the mid-1990s and defamed her by claiming she made up the story to boost sales of a book. Trump, who has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, has claimed US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the civil trial, made numerous errors by allowing the jury to hear testimony from two women who alleged Trump sexually assaulted them years ago.
Trump also argued that the judge should not have let the jurors see the “Access Hollywood tape,” which captured Trump in 2005 on a hot mic saying he gropes and kisses women.
“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything, … Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything,” Trump was heard saying on the recording.
Kaplan concluded the recording was relevant for the jury to hear because it added to the probability that Trump “in fact has had contact with women’s genitalia in the past without their consent, or that he has attempted to do so.”
Last year, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the jury’s $5 million verdict against Trump, ruling the trial judge did not make errors that would warrant a new trial. In June 2025, Trump lost an effort to have the appeal reviewed by the full bench of judges and, months later, he appealed to the Supreme Court.
“It is deeply damaging to the fabric of our republic for President Trump, in the midst of a historic presidency, to have to take his focus away from his singular and unique duties as chief executive to continue fighting against decades-old, false allegations and the myriad wrongs throughout this baseless case,” the president’s attorneys told the Supreme Court in a January filing. “This mistreatment of a President cannot be allowed to stand.”
In urging the high court to deny the case, Carroll’s attorneys argued that the district court acted within its jurisdiction in how it handled the evidence.
In a highly technical brief at the Supreme Court dealing with rules of evidence, Carroll’s attorneys focused largely on the 2nd Circuit decision upholding the verdict.
“The court’s duty was simply to decide whether a jury could reasonably find by a preponderance of the evidence that Mr. Trump committed an act of sexual assault,” a three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit, all three of whom were appointed by Democratic presidents, ruled unanimously. “If it could so find, the court had the discretion to admit the evidence.”
Those written arguments were all submitted to the Supreme Court by the end of January.
And that’s when the delays began.
During its October-to-June term, the Supreme Court justices meet privately in conferences once a week to discuss whether to grant or deny pending appeals. It takes four justices to grant a case.
But appeals are often held for multiple conferences for many different reasons. Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the court almost always holds an appeal for at least a second meeting before granting the appeal and scheduling oral arguments, for instance. And sometimes, cases are repeatedly relisted and denied without explanation.
Sometimes cases are held to give a justice an opportunity to dissent from a decision to deny it. Sometimes, the justices seem likely to be waiting for a similar case to make its way up through the lower courts. Often, the reason is opaque.
Usually, when a case is held, it is “relisted” for future conferences. The Supreme Court has been relisting multiple appeals involving local bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines since December, for instance.
But what’s different about the case involving Carroll is that the president’s appeal is being “rescheduled.” That suggests it’s not being discussed at all — at least not formally.
Last year, the court rescheduled a case dealing with the federal government’s sweeping power to prosecute crimes on Native American lands 17 times — holding it over its summer recess. In the end, the petition was denied.
Only one other case has been rescheduled as many times as the Carroll appeal. That case, which involves a housing police officer in Ohio who shot and killed a suspect who was fleeing with a gun in his hand, has also rescheduled 15 times.
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A spokesperson for the Supreme Court did not respond to a request for comment.
Carroll’s attorneys declined to comment. Trump’s legal team referred to a prior comment on the case in which he described Carroll’s claims as “false” and “Liberal Lawfare.”
Much has changed in the legal brawl between Trump and Carroll since the case made its way to the Supreme Court’s docket. The Justice Department launched a criminal investigation into Carroll last month that is focused on whether she committed perjury in testimony tied to the pending appeal.
Meanwhile, a second case involving Trump and Carroll appears to be on the way.
Carroll sued Trump again over statements he made about her in 2019. A jury in New York found those statements were defamatory and ordered Trump to pay $83 million in damages. A federal appeals court panel affirmed the damages award finding it “reasonable in light of the extraordinary and egregious facts” and rejected several of Trump’s legal challenges. Among them, the appeals court found that Trump had previously waived any claim of presidential immunity and said the Supreme Court’s decision in 2024 involving presidential immunity did not alter their view.
The full 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals declined to revisit that decision in late April.
In an unusual letter in the Carroll case already pending at the Supreme Court, Trump’s attorneys wrote on June 2 that they intend to appeal the second case to the Supreme Court “within the next month.”
“The court,” Trump’s attorneys added, “may wish to consider the petitions together.”
Given the way scheduling works at the Supreme Court, that round would almost certainly push a decision on whether to hear or deny the Carroll matter into the fall.
On Monday, the court once against added the case to its agenda for Thursday.