Trump's lawyer writes letter to SCOTUS amid mysterious E Jean Carroll appeal

There’s been a mysterious subplot running through President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court appeal against writer E. Jean Carroll.

For months now, his petition has been pending in his effort to upend the $5 million in damages awarded to Carroll by a New York jury that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

Yet the justices keep rescheduling the petition from consideration at their private conferences where they decide which new cases to take up. The court doesn’t explain why it reschedules petitions.

I speculated in the most recent edition of the Deadline: Legal Newsletter that perhaps the court, or at least some of the justices, have wanted to put off considering Trump’s petition in order to weigh it alongside another one he has coming, in his separate but related appeal in the case in which Carroll won $83.3 million in defamation damages.

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