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00:02President Trump and the Department of Justice on Tuesday separately asked the Supreme Court
00:07to overturn an $83.3 million civil verdict, according to CNBC. The ruling found Trump
00:14liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 after he denied her claim that he
00:20sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. Trump's lawyers argued he is immune because he made
00:25the statements while serving as president and said a 2024 Supreme Court ruling on presidential
00:30immunity requires the verdict to be overturned. The DOJ argued the U.S. government should have
00:36been substituted as the defendant under the Westfall Act, which would have resulted in
00:40the case being dismissed. The petitions follow the Supreme Court's decision last month to
00:45reject Trump's appeal of a separate $5 million verdict in Carroll's favor.
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