President Donald Trump expressed surprise after the Supreme Court on Monday declined to review his appeal in a civil case involving E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded $5 million in damages after she accused him of sexual assault.

In 2023, a federal jury in New York decided in favor of Carroll, who said Trump had assaulted her in the mid-1990s in the dressing room of luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman and later defamed her. Carroll wrote about the experience in a 2019 New York magazine article.

“Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to “review” a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I never met (Decades old celebrity photo line, standing with her husband, does not count!),” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The rejection by the nation’s highest court means the end of the legal road for Trump. Still, he said that he “will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength.”

Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement: “Today’s Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury’s unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll. His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today’s ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions.”

In his post, Trump lamented the New York law, called the Adult Survivors Act, that paved the way for Carroll’s lawsuit. The law, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2022, created a onetime, one-year window beginning six months after it was signed into law for adult victims of sexual violence to file civil lawsuits, regardless of whether the standard statute of limitations had expired. Trump called it “tailormade” and an injustice.

As is typical, the Supreme Court did not explain why it rejected Trump’s appeal request.

Trump is also expected to petition the justices to review another defamation case against him, in which Carroll won an $83.3 million award.

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