00:00 It's Benzinga and here's what's on the block.
00:02 The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected a request by lawyers for former President
00:06 Donald Trump for the full court to review whether federal immunity protects him from
00:10 being sued for defamation by columnist E.G. Carroll.
00:13 Last month, the same court denied a request by Trump's lawyers for a three-month delay
00:16 to the start of the second defamation lawsuit brought by Carroll.
00:19 In May, a jury found that Trump had sexually abused Carroll in a department store changing
00:23 room in the mid-1990s and later defamed her by denying her account of the attack.
00:27 The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages.
00:30 Trump's argument that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution continues to
00:34 be rejected on appeal but will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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