US Judge Rejects Trump’s ‘Bad Faith’ Countersuit in Prolonged E. Jean Carroll Defamation Saga

In December 2020, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued an order denying US President Donald Trump’s request to substitute the US Department of Justice as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, who, in 2019, accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.