A federal judge has scheduled E. Jean Carroll’s remaining defamation trial against former President Donald Trump for a date in January 2024 that coincides roughly with the kickoff of Republican presidential primary caucuses.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said in a Thursday scheduling order that Carroll’s civil trial against Trump will begin on January 15, 2024, unless the case has been settled by then.
“Unless this case previously has been entirely disposed of, trial of this action shall commence on January 15, 2024, absent contrary order of the Court,” Kaplan wrote.
The case relates to a lawsuit Carroll filed over allegedly defamatory comments Trump made about her in 2019 when she first publicly accused him of sexual assault….