Trump loses bid to stop case by his rape accuser E Jean Carroll going ahead

Gustaf Kilander
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E Jean Carroll speaks onstage during the How to Write Your Own Life panel at the 2019 Glamour Women Of The Year Summit at Alice Tully Hall on November 10, 2019 (Getty Images for Glamour)
E Jean Carroll speaks onstage during the How to Write Your Own Life panel at the 2019 Glamour Women Of The Year Summit at Alice Tully Hall on November 10, 2019 (Getty Images for Glamour)
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A federal judge has denied former President Donald Trump’s request to stop a defamation lawsuit from columnist E Jean Carroll, who has accused Mr Trump of raping her in a department store in New York in the mid-1990s.

District Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the request to stop the lawsuit from moving forward as they await a decision from an appeals court.

On Wednesday, Judge Kaplan put in a minute entry on the court docket that indicated that he was rejecting Mr Trump’s request for a “stay” of his ruling from last year when an attempt to replace the defendant with the Justice Department was rejected.

Having Mr Trump replaced with the Department of Justice as the defendant would likely lead to the case being dismissed as the federal government cannot be sued for defamation.

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