Court agrees to hear six new cases, including dispute over proof of citizenship to vote

The Supreme Court on Monday morning added six new cases to its argument docket for the 2026-27 term and turned down President Donald Trump’s request to take up his appeal of a $5 million award against him in a lawsuit brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll. The announcements came as part of a list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Thursday, June 25. That conference was the final regularly scheduled conference before the justices’ summer recess; the justices met again on Monday and are expected to release orders from that conference sometime this week, possibly as soon as Tuesday.Carroll, a journalist known for writing a popular advice column for Elle for 27 years, filed her lawsuit in 2022. She alleged that Trump had sexually abused her in a dressing room at a New York department store in 1996 and that he had defamed her in a 2022 social media post calling her accusations, among other things, a “complete con job” and a “Hoax.” Carroll relied on a New York state law enacted that year, which gave adult victims of sexual abuse one year to sue their abusers, even if it would have otherwise been too late to do so.A jury in 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll and awarded her $5 million. Trump appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, which upheld the verdict and later declined to reconsider the case.Trump came to the Supreme Court in November 2025, asking the justices to weigh in. Emphasizing that he had “clearly and con