WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation judgment against him in New York writer E. Jean Carroll’s civil lawsuit.

Trump’s attorneys asked the justices to extend the deadline for him to formally ask the high court to hear the case, according to a new filing. The petition would be due Sept. 11, but his legal team wants until Nov. 10.

Trump was found liable by a Manhattan jury in May 2023 for sexually assaulting Carroll and then defaming her by calling her a liar, following a trial in which he declined to testify. Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages.

In December, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trump’s challenges, including arguments that jurors shouldn’t have heard the so-called Acces

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