E·简·卡罗尔于2024年10月8日在纽约市索尼音乐厅举行的2024年“让平等成为现实”晚会上发表讲话。
E Jean Carroll speaks onstage during the 2024 Make Equality Reality Gala at Sony Hall on 8 October 2024 in New York City.
为平等而战的律师提交反对意见，告知最高法院大法官无需“为这位总统兜底” E·简·卡罗尔的律师团队正在联邦最高法院抗争唐纳德·特朗普推翻其8300万美元赔偿判决的努力，他们告诉大法官们，无需“为这位总统因其反复的诉讼选择而承担的后果兜底”。
for Equality Now Lawyers file opposition to Trump’s request, telling supreme court justices they do not need ‘to bail out this president’ E Jean Carroll’s lawyers are fighting Donald Trump’s efforts to toss her $83m damages verdict in the US supreme court, telling the justices that they do not need “to bail out this president from the consequences of his repeated litigation choices”.
陪审团于2024年1月26日判给卡罗尔这笔巨额赔偿，距离这位记者兼作家在针对特朗普的性侵和诽谤案中赢得500万美元判决不足一年。特朗普一再否认在卡罗尔一案中有任何不当行为。
Jurors delivered Carroll the huge award on 26 January 2024, less than one year after the journalist and author won $5m in her sexual abuse and defamation case against Trump. The president has repeatedly denied all wrongdoing in relation to Carroll.
卡罗尔的法律团队于10月30日提交了反对意见，针对特朗普请求最高法院审理其对卡罗尔巨额胜诉提出上诉的请求 特朗普的法律论点之一主张，总统豁免权保护他免于因任职期间的行为承担责任，包括2019年他称卡罗尔为骗子的言论。
Carroll’s legal team on 30 October filed their opposition to Trump’s request that the supreme court consider his appeal of Carroll’s massive win Among Trump’s legal arguments is a claim that presidential immunity protects him from liability from conduct during his time in office, including 2019 statements in which he called Carroll a liar.
特朗普的律师还主张，如果没有最高法院介入，“现任总统将面临近一亿美元的个人赔偿责任，而相关行为完全属于其联邦职权范围内……仅这一点就值得本法院关注。”
Trump’s lawyers have also claimed that absent supreme court intervention, “the sitting President is facing nearly a hundred million dollars of personal liability for conduct that was well within the scope of his federal office … that alone deserves this court’s attention.”
特朗普的律师表示，最高法院对该判决进行复审将“保护的不是总统本人，而是总统职位这一制度”。他们称：“毕竟，因公务行为面临个人赔偿责任，且金额之大足以让几乎任何其他总统破产，这将对未来总统行使行政权力产生寒蝉效应。” 卡罗尔的律师团队由律师罗伯塔·卡普兰率领，他们指出，卡罗尔第二次审判的判决——该审判裁定赔偿金额，因为卡罗尔作为前《Elle》专栏作家的第一次审判已由陪审团认定特朗普对她实施了性侵犯和诽谤——已被下级法院反复维持，这削弱了特朗普的请求。
Trump’s lawyers said that a supreme court review of this verdict would “protect not the President himself, but the institution of the Presidency”. They said “after all, the specter of personal liability for official conduct, in an amount that would bankrupt virtually any other President, will chill the exercise of executive power by future Presidents.”Carroll’s lawyers, helmed by attorney Roberta Kaplan, noted that the verdict in Carroll’s second trial – which weighed damages, as the former Elle columnist’s first trial ended in a jury finding that Trump sexually abused and defamed her – has been repeatedly upheld by lower courts, undermining Trump’s request.
他们写道：“七年来——历经五次上诉、八次暂缓执行动议和六天庭审——卡罗尔女士在面对请愿人日益恶毒的指控以及其追随者数千条死亡和性暴力威胁的情况下，坚持诉讼至今。”
“For seven years – through five appeals, eight stay motions, and six days of trial – Ms Carroll has litigated this case in the face of petitioner’s increasingly vicious accusations and thousands of threats of death and sexual violence from his followers,” they wrote.
他们表示，特朗普的诽谤言论“产生了多米诺骨牌效应”。他们说，卡罗尔“在推特、脸书和电子邮件中瞬间且持续地遭到攻击”。这些攻击包括“性暴力威胁、人身暴力威胁和死亡威胁。” 他们还表示：“虽然这位总统可能想要本法院的帮助，但总统职位并不需要。”
Trump’s defamatory statements, they said, “had a domino effect”. Carroll, they said, was “instantly and continuously attacked on Twitter and Facebook and in emails”. These attacks included “threats of sexual violence, physical violence, and death.”“While this President may want this Court’s help, the Presidency does not need it,” they also said.
在最高法院再次驳回他寻求上诉审理的努力后，特朗普于9月同意不再对抗第一次陪审团裁决。
Trump in September agreed to stop fighting the first jury verdict after the supreme court once again rebuffed his efforts to hear his appeal.
这起诉讼源于卡罗尔的指控，她称特朗普在几十年前曾在曼哈顿一家高档百货商店的试衣间内袭击了她。卡罗尔的指控于2019年6月在《纽约》杂志的一篇文章中公之于众，该文章是她当时即将出版的新书《我们为什么需要男人？一个温和的建议》的节选。
The litigation stems from Carroll’s claim that Trump attacked her in the dressing room of a Tony Manhattan department store several decades earlier. Carroll’s allegation went public in a June 2019 New York magazine article, which was an excerpt of her then forthcoming book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal.
当被问及对卡罗尔新提交的诉状有何评论时，特朗普法律团队的一名发言人表示：“美国人民站在特朗普总统一边，他们要求立即结束所有的‘猎巫行动’，包括由民主党资助的卡罗尔骗局这一闹剧。特朗普总统将继续在自由派的法律战中获胜，同时专注于他的使命，让美国再次伟大。”
Asked for comment on Carroll’s new filing, a spokesman for Trump’s legal team said: “The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes. President Trump will keep winning against Liberal Lawfare, as he continues to focus on his mission to Make America Great Again.”