In yet another defeat in court for President Donald Trump in his bid to overturn the $83 million defamation verdict a jury awarded to longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll , the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decided Monday that the punishment was not excessive and there were no grounds to reconsider presidential immunity.

The per curiam ruling from a three-judge panel stated flatly that Trump's latest attempt to use the U.S. Supreme Court's immunity decision to his benefit was unavailing, putting the president on a losing streak in the 2nd Circuit.

"The present appeal is from the judgment in Carroll I . Although a panel of this Court has already rejected Trump's claim of presidential immunity, Trump now argues that the Supreme Court's intervening decision in Trump v. United State

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