The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied President Donald Trump’s bid to make the federal government the defendant in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against him, the Washington Examiner reported.
The court ruled that the request, made in June, came “simply too late.”
“Fairness and equity dictate that the motion to substitute be denied,” the court wrote in its 23-page opinion.
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