Donald Trump on Friday posted a $91.6 million bond to cover the defamation verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll, and began his appeal of the case that arose from his branding her a liar after she accused him of raping her decades ago.
The bond from Federal Insurance Co, part of the insurer Chubb , would cover Carroll’s $83.3 million judgment if Trump were to lose his appeal of the Jan. 26 verdict and refuse to pay.
The posting of a bond also means Carroll, 80, wouldn’t collect on the judgment during the appeals process, which could take years.
We’re in NY state court here. Federal appeals courts don’t tell states how to run their own laws and assume that each state’s courts understands their laws better. In any case, he’s a very long shot away from going into federal court and then would have to raise a federal question to be heard there. He’s something like 5 appeals away from SCOTUS if he could ever even get into federal court.
You’re right. I just lept over the state’s juristiction straight to SCOTUS.
My bad.
Don’t worry, SCOTUS demonstrated they are willing to leap over states’ jurisdiction by imposing federal power on state primaries used by private political parties, primaries that appoint state based electors to select their candidates for a coming federal election at a private national party meeting, by forcing Trump back onto Colorado’s primary. So I expect them to fast track this too.
Authoritarianism centralizing control of power seems to be falling into place as the default state of our political environment, even regardless of government frameworks, political party and local/state/national differences. We are all in trouble folks.