Trump caught in insane scheme with Supreme Court - Brian Tyler Cohen

[TexasTowelie]

The following summary is AI-generated.

- Donald Trump is facing a final legal push to avoid paying an $83.3 million defamation judgment to E. Jean Carroll, with the Department of Justice attempting a last-ditch motion to substitute itself as the defendant.

- The strategy relies on the Westfall Act to claim Trump was acting within his official duties, which would allow the case to be dismissed, but this argument has already failed in both the trial court and the Court of Appeals.

- Legal experts argue the motion is procedurally flawed because Trump waived the issue by failing to raise it in lower courts, and substantively weak because some defamation occurred after he left office as a private citizen.

- The Supreme Court is unlikely to accept the case for review, as it lacks a significant constitutional conflict or a "circuit split" typically required for high court intervention.

- If the Supreme Court denies review, the legal battle ends, and Carroll is poised to collect the judgment due to a money bond Trump posted, which includes accrued interest.

- The case involves two separate defamation judgments; the Westfall Act argument only potentially applies to the incident that occurred while Trump was still president.