President Donald Trump has turned to the Supreme Court and the Justice Department to bail him out of having to pay more than $80 million to E. Jean Carroll after he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
The Justice Department announced plans to intervene on Trump’s behalf in a Tuesday filing, saying it would ask the Supreme Court to swap Trump for the U.S. as the defendant in the $83.3 million defamation lawsuit brought by Carroll. That would trigger an automatic dismissal, because defamation claims cannot be brought against the federal government.
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