Kaplan wrote that the jury's unanimous verdict was almost entirely in favor of Carroll, except that the jury concluded she had failed to prove that Trump raped her “within the narrow, technical meaning of a particular section of the New York Penal Law.” In their arguments, the lawyers said the jury's $2 million in compensatory damages granted for Carroll's sexual assault claim was excessive because the jury concluded that Trump had not raped Carroll at Bergdorf Goodman's Manhattan store in the spring of 1996. Trump’s lawyers had asked Kaplan to reduce the jury award to less than $1 million or order a new trial on damages. Jean Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation in the civil case was reasonable. Kaplan said the jury’s May award of compensatory and punitive damages to writer E. We are going to fight this," Suara tweeted Thursday night.NEW YORK – A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the former president’s claims that the award was excessive and that the jury vindicated him by failing to conclude he raped a columnist in a luxury department store dressing room in the 1990s. I have to take a deep breath so as not to swear! What have this state become! Do some just wake up and propose the next thing that comes to mind. He was also the subject of the critically-acclaimed 2020 documentary, John Lewis: Good Trouble.Ĭouncilwoman Zulfat Suara, a Democratic member of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, criticized the bill introduced by Niceley and Sherrell on Twitter. In 2011, then-President Barack Obama awarded Lewis the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Lewis was also a leader of the Democratic Party during his time in Congress, serving at different times as chief deputy whip and senior chief deputy whip. From 1987 until his death in 2020, he served as a member of the U.S. King in the 1960s and carried on as one of the country's most prominent civil rights activists for the rest of his life. Photos by Jeff Hutchens/Scott Eisen/Getty Images Two GOP lawmakers in Tennessee this week introduced a bill that would re-name a portion of John Lewis Way after Trump. Inset, former President Donald Trump is seen at the New Hampshire Republican State Committee's annual meeting on January 28 in Salem, New Hampshire. Late Congressman John Lewis is seen on March 17, 2009, in Washington, D.C. The area that the two Republicans seek to name after the ex-president is between Dr. The bill from Sherrell and Nicely looks to rename part of the street to President Donald Trump Boulevard. According to The Tennessean, "Lewis helped lead lunch counter sit-ins along the street during the early years of the civil rights movement." John Lewis Way was formerly known as Fifth Avenue, however it was renamed after the late congressman in 2020. Niceley filed the state Senate version on Wednesday, which fell on the first day of Black History Month. According to state general assembly records, Sherrell filed the bill on Tuesday. The Tennessean reported on Friday that state Representative Paul Sherrell and state Senator Frank Niceley sponsored the bill to change the name of a section of John Lewis Way. Two Republican lawmakers in Tennessee introduced a bill this week that would rename a portion of a Nashville street named after civil rights icon John Lewis after former President Donald Trump.
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