Trump wants delay but E. Jean Carroll wants to gets paid — now: Court filing

Trump unsuccessfully asked both Judge Kaplan and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the $5 million verdict.

And on Monday, the Supreme Court said it would not take Trump’s appeal in that case.

There were no noted dissents to that decision from any of the nine justices — three of whom were nominated by Trump during his first term in the White House.

Roberta Kaplan, in the new filing, said that shortly after the Supreme Court’s denial, Trump wrote a Truth Social post that “continued his stream of defamatory attacks on Carroll.”

Trump wrote, “Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to ‘review’ a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I never met (Decades old celebrity photo line, standing with her husband, does not count!).”

Within minutes of the post, Kaplan wrote, Trump’s lawyers contacted Carroll’s attorneys to ask if she would agree to further delay enforcement of the award so that the president “can ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its denial of certiorari.”

Certiorari is the term for the Supreme Court agreeing to review a case from lower courts.

Carroll’s lawyers told Trump’s team that a prior order by Judge Kaplan directed the award to be disbursed “immediately upon denial of a petition for certiorari,” the filing said.

Trump’s lawyer then “clarified that he was requesting that Carroll consent to a ‘new stay or continuance of execution’ ” of the disbursement, Roberta Kaplan wrote.

Kaplan said she told Trump’s lawyer that Carroll did not agree to delaying the release of the funds.

She also asked if Trump would agree to stipulate that the funds should be released. Trump’s lawyer replied that the president could not respond to that question before Thursday, according to the filing.

Kaplan wrote that there is no “practical or equitable reason” to delay giving Carroll the money “based on the mere theoretical possibility of rehearing” by the Supreme Court.

She noted that the high court grants certiorari in just “a handful of cases each year.”

“And rehearing is an even more extraordinary remedy, granted in only narrow circumstances,” she wrote.

“There is no reason to believe that the Supreme Court would grant it here.”

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