Ex-President Donald TrumpOn Friday, he was denied permission to file a countersuit and claim financial damages from E. Jean Carroll. He is accused of raping his wife years ago at a New York City department shop.

Manhattan Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Trump’s request and stated that there are good reasons to suspect the request was a delay tactic to stop Carroll from filing Defamation suit against him.

Kaplan said that Trump was acting in bad faith by requesting the information. Trump had waited 14 years to file a countersuit alleging harassment against Carroll, claiming that her accusations are “baseless”.

Carroll would be denied her right to have her claim heard in court if the judge delays it further.

He said, “Futile” that Trump would not be allowed to respond.

Kaplan stated that “the record convinces the Court that defendants’ litigation tactics, regardless of their intent, have prolonged the case to an extent which readily could have been much less.”

As the decision is made, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 2nd CircuitTrump appeal to the U.S. Justice Department an earlier ruling by Kaplan, who barred the U.S. government from replacing Trump as the defendant in Carroll’s lawsuit.

It would end Carroll’s case if the Justice Department prevails on that argument. This is because Trump was president, not a private citizen at the time he made these allegedly false claims.

This is because the U.S. could invoke sovereign immunity to protect itself from lawsuits.

After she claimed she was lying and motivated by money, Carroll sued Trump in defamation. After a chance meeting in Bergdorf Goodman in the late 1990s, Carroll claimed that Trump had raped and abused her in a Bergdorf Goodman locker room.

Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan, in an emailed statement about Friday’s decision, said, “As the Court said in its opinion today: a ‘characterization of [Donald Trump’s]Previous and threatened future actions that are dilatory or in bad faith would be considered a useless exercise. In varying degrees they are all of them.

”Judge Kaplan further noted that this case ‘could have been tried and decided – one way or the other – long ago.’ “My client E. Jean Carroll is my friend and I cannot agree more”, said Kaplan, an attorney who is not related.

Alina Habba (Trump’s lawyer) stated via email that while she was disappointed at the Court’s decision, the firm is eager to pursue this case and prove the plaintiffs’ claims are without merit in law or fact.

Carroll’s case originally was filed with Manhattan Supreme Court. It is the trial-level court of New York state judicial systems.

The Justice Department, while Trump was still in office, waited for 10 monthsThe case was transferred to the U.S. District Court, Manhattan. Trump’s request to be substituted for Trump is granted.

It was a successful move a month after a state judge rejected Trump’s claimHe is exempt from any private suit, which sets the scene for him to be required to submit a DNA sample that could be compared to a stain on Carroll’s dress, which she had saved from that dayYou will be asked to sign an oath and answer any questions.

The Justice Department was immediately stopped by Judge Kaplan from removing Trump as a defendant.

Kaplan stated in October 2020 that “The President is not an employee within the meaning the applicable statutes”.

Kaplan said that Trump’s statements about Ms. Carroll were not within Trump’s employment scope, even though he was such an employee.

Surprised by some legal experts, the Biden administration continued to appeal Kaplan’s decision that was first filed under Trump’s Justice Department.