Supreme Court Again Rejects Trump Appeal in E. Jean Carroll Case; Other Trump-Linked Legal Fights Continue

The U.S. Supreme Court, for the second time, declined to hear President Donald Trump's appeal of a jury verdict in a case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, according to reporting from the Associated Press, BBC News, CBS News, and NBC News published between August 17 and August 18, 2026. A jury had previously found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages; multiple outlets reported Trump has already paid this amount. The Supreme Court's refusal to rehear the case leaves the original verdict and damages award intact, according to consistent reporting across the four sources. Separately, PBS NewsHour reported on August 28, 2026, that Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan blocked, for the third time, an attempt to move Trump's hush money conviction case from New York state court to federal court. This ruling pertains to a different legal matter than the Carroll case and was reported by a single source in the supplied material. The New York Times reported on August 27, 2026, that the Trump administration would appeal a federal judge's ruling against it in a lawsuit alleging Harvard University failed to address antisemitism on campus; this claim is also supported by only one source in the provided reports. Fox News reported on September 5, 2026, that an Arizona voter law dispute has reached the Supreme Court, with election experts warning that a 9th Circuit ruling could make it functionally impossible to remove noncitizens from state voter rolls. This report, sourced from a single publisher in the supplied material, describes a pending case rather than a resolved outcome. Because the hush money, Harvard, and Arizona voter roll matters are each supported by only one publisher in the provided dataset, these claims should be considered unverified pending additional independent corroboration. The Carroll case outcome is the only claim in this set corroborated by multiple independent sources, and no material disagreement among those sources was identified.