President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its refusal to hear his appeal of the $5 million judgment awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll. In a petition filed July 6, Trump’s lawyers said a rehearing is warranted “because President Trump will imminently file a petition for a writ of certiorari in Carroll v. Trump … which will present vital questions concerning Presidential immunity for official statements.” “Those questions are likely to bear on the proper disposition” of the $5 million case because Carroll “introduced and relied on those same official Presidential statements at trial,” his lawyers wrote. Trump’s lawyers cited a June 2025 dissent by Judge Steven Menashi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who argued that Carroll’s case had been “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings.”...