Barr's DOJ Screws Up 'Routine' Effort to Defend Trump in E. Jean Carroll Case
It was a “routine” maneuver—at least that’s how Attorney General Bill Barr previously his DOJ’s twice-unsuccessful, as of Tuesday, effort to mount a publicly funded defense of President Donald Trump amid ongoing legal woes.
In a terse two-page order by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Judge Lewis A. Kaplan admonished the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for its second failed attempt at (1) having E. Jean Carroll‘s defamation case against Trump removed from state court to federal court; and (2) having the United States “substitute itself for Donald J. Trump in his personal capacity as the defendant” in the high-profile case.
In early August, Carroll won a significant victory when the New York State Supreme Court issued a decision in her favor. That ruling resulted in Carroll’s lawyers giving Trump a series of deadlines to produce his DNA and other evidence as part of mandatory discovery in Carroll’s year-old defamation case against him.
Carroll is an author and advice columnist who accused Trump of raping her sometime in late 1995 or early 1996. She initially made that accusation—one of more than 20 such sexual assault allegations against the president—during the summer of 2019. Trump later denied the accusation in an interview with The Hill and Caroll subsequently sued him for defamation in New York State court.
In early September, Barr’s DOJ caused a stir by attempting to substitute itself as the defendant in that lawsuit by arguing Trump was “acting within the scope of his office as President of the United States” when he said that Carroll’s rape accusation was a lie.
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