Judge blocks Donald Trump’s effort to countersue rape accuser E Jean Carroll
by Guardian staff and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#5X0TC)
New York judge accuses ex-president of bad faith' in tactics that would have further delayed defamation lawsuit
Donald Trump cannot countersue the US writer E Jean Carroll, who says he raped her in the mid-1990s, a federal judge ruled on Friday. The former president had argued that her defamation lawsuit against him violated a New York state law intended to protect free speech.
US district judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said a ruling for the one-term Republican would needlessly cause further delays for Carroll's lawsuit, which began in November 2019.
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