An appeals court on Wednesday ruled that Donald Trump can't claim presidential immunity from a defamation lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape.
The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan maintained a federal judge's rejection of Trump's assertion of immunity on the grounds that Trump had waited too long to raise it as a defense. "A three-year-delay is more than enough, under our precedents, to qualify as 'undue,'" the three-judge panel, who heard Trump's appeal on an expedited basis ahead of a scheduled January trial, wrote in its opinion, per Reuters.
