'Guardrails of the rule of law': Why federal appeals court upheld Trump/Carroll abuse verdict

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : The ruling has inspired a lot of reactions on X, formerly Twitter.READ MORE: Georgia AG wants Trump administration to restrain rising migrant farm worker payMSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance was quick to weigh in, tweeting, "After inexplicable delay, the 2nd Circuit has affirmed the jury verdict awarding E. Jean Carroll $5 mil in the 1st of her defamation cases to go to trial against Donald Trump.
21% : "Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks posted, "Appeals court upholds verdict finding Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll.
20% : Trump has vehemently denied Carroll's accusation, but in May 2023, a jury in her civil defamation lawsuit found him guilty of defamation and agreed she was sexually abused.
20% : The jury found Trump slandered her when he said she was lying about being sexually abused by him.
19% : Former Elle Magazine columnist Carroll has alleged that during the 1990s, Donald Trump tried to force himself on her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store.
13% : "Politico's Kyle Cheney noted that the ruling upholds the parts of the civil verdict that Trump has been fighting, including the president-elect being "liable for sexually abusing" Carroll and jurors "ordering him to pay $5 million."READ MORE: Nearly 200 WI ballots mysteriously went uncounted on Election Day -- officials still don't know why"Trump's request for a new trial is rejected," Cheney tweeted.Lawfare's Roger Parloff tweeted that according to the December 30 ruling, Trump "failed to prove that Judge Kaplan 'erred in any of the challenged rulings.'"WMBD Radio observed that "Carroll's cases are continuing despite Trump's having won a second four-year White House term on Nov. 5."The Democratic group Blue Virginia posted, "Good, although the fact that 10s of millions of Americans (including Glenn Youngkin, Jen Kiggans, etc.) simply don't care about this is incredibly depressing.

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