WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court has rescheduled consideration of President Donald Trump's petition for review of a $5 million jury verdict in the sexual abuse and defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll 11 times over the past three months. The most recent postponement came one day before the justices' planned February 20 conference.

On January 28, the court officially sent the briefs for Trump's petition to the justices for consideration at the February 20 conference. The court does not provide explanations when it reschedules a case; the rescheduling appears as a notation on the court's electronic docket. The justices hold their private conferences on Thursdays.

Trump filed his petition seeking Supreme Court review in November 2025, after a federal appeals court upheld the $5 million verdict that a jury had awarded to Carroll. The petition argued that Carroll's lawyers should not have been allowed to introduce testimony by other women who alleged that Trump had assaulted them. The petition also argued that her lawyers should not have been allowed to introduce the 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump bragged about grabbing women by their genitals.

Carroll filed the underlying lawsuit in federal court in New York in 2022. She contended that in 1996 Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store. She also contended that Trump defamed her in a 2022 social media post by describing her accusations as a "Hoax."

Carroll urged the Supreme Court to deny review of the petition. She argued that even if the disputed evidence had been excluded, it would not have affected the outcome because her remaining evidence was sufficient to support the verdict.