President Donald Trump and his legal team on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to step in and overturn an $83.3 million jury award against him in the E. Jean Carroll case, despite the court declining to hear a different judgment last month.

The high court's June 29 ruling is connected to the $5 million 2023 civil court verdict in which Trump was found liable for allegedly sexually abusing Carroll, a writer, in the mid-1990s and defaming her after she publicly accused him.

The latest request is related to the larger jury award, which the president urged the justices to reject, asserting that its 2024 decision giving presidents sweeping immunity for actions they take in office shielded him from liability in the case.

“This is the first case in our nation’s history in which a court has imposed damages liability on a president for his conduct in office,” Trump's lawyers said in a court filing reviewed by the New York Times.

The attorneys argued that the president was shielded from the defamation award and that the question regarding presidential immunity in this case was “straightforward on the undisputed factual record.”

The latest request is related to the larger $65 million in punitive damages after determining that Trump defamed Carroll in social media posts, at news conferences and during the trial. The jury also awarded Carroll $18.3 million in damages for her suffering.

Carroll, a longtime advice columnist, first publicly accused Trump in 2019 of sexually assaulting her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan during the mid-1990s. The allegation appeared in an excerpt from her memoir published by New York Magazine.

Trump denied the accusation, saying he never assaulted Carroll and described her claims as a “hoax” and politically motivated. 

The Supreme Court is not expected to respond to the president's request until it returns from its summer recess.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.