Posted on 09/15/2021 4:24:26 PM PDT by kiryandil
Some months after Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice signaled it would back former President Donald Trump in a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a federal judge refused on Wednesday to let that development prevent the litigation from proceeding in his courtroom.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Trump’s request for a stay of all proceedings, without comment.
Carroll claims that the former president defamed her by falsely denying that he raped her in the dressing room of the department store Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s, but for roughly a year, proceedings have revolved less around her allegations than whether the case caption should even be Carroll v. Trump.
Late last year, Judge Kaplan rejected an effort by then-Attorney General Bill Barr’s Justice Department to make itself the defendant in the case instead of Trump, a move to transform the case into Carroll v. United States.
More significantly, the substitution raised the specter of scuttling the famed columnist’s lawsuit entirely, making it unlikely to survive federal court jurisdiction. Trump appealed the denial of substitution to the Second Circuit, where the former president found strange bedfellows with Garland’s Justice Department.
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Statute of limitations on the rape, but not on the libel?
It apparently is if you’re a senile Rapin Bill “judge”...
Is Tara Reade suing Biden yet? Seems like a perfect time. If you can’t go after Joe, go after the press who dragged her through the mud.
Hack Clinton Judge.
He says he never met her. She says she has dna from him. They already have a photo of them together. It comes down to who’s word can be trusted.
The idea of raping someone in a department store dressing room is preposterous. Those dressing rooms are back-to-back, usually have thin walls that don’t even reach to the ceiling, usually have a space under the door, and are just a few feet from the main area of the store where people are constantly coming and going.
Isn’t this the woman who wrote about her fantasy encounters with various famous people? And as I recall she didn’t describe a “rape” as much as a highly unlikely quickie.
How are you in Bergdorf’s in a dressing room & no one hears anything?
Amazing. Just read that sentence slowly and comprehend it:
“Carroll claims that the former president defamed her by falsely denying that he raped her”
In this delusional black-is-white world, she can accuse him of defaming her - BECAUSE HE DENIED HE RAPED HER!! ???????
Have you ever seen this woman or heard her speak?? By the time this gets to court, she will be making appearances wearing her bra outside of her clothes......she and Biden shop for drool bibs from the same medical supply company.
They filed suit shortly after the alleged libel.
This should open the door to Tara Reade since she’s got more evidence then this…we are to believe that a woman who seems unstable to begin with was raped by Donald Trump in the middle of a department store in the middle of the day in the middle of Manhattan where the guy was known by absolutely everyone at the time…so Trump defending himself is now considered libel…does this clown even know the Pandora’s box he’s opening?
Have you actually heard her story? Even Anderson Cooper who interviewed her was looking at her like she’s not all there
Kaplan would rule the EXACT OPPOSITE when it came to Tara Reade and The Senile Puppet.
Rode hard, and put up wet. Trending to brainmelt.
Ignore the judge.
Im sure the judge is being compensated by the Clintons, check his bank account
Probably gets overturned on appeal
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