By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow March 14 at 12:48 PM A New York appellate court ruled Thursday that President Trump must face a defamation lawsuit filed by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, one of about a dozen women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct shortly before the 2016 election.
Trump has called Zervos and the other women who made accusations against him “liars,” prompting Zervos to file a lawsuit in 2017. Trump’s lawyers have tried unsuccessfully to block Zervos’s suit, arguing that the president is immune from such lawsuits in state court. In their ruling Thursday, a panel of New York appellate judges rejected that argument, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Clinton v. Jones, which established that presidents can be sued while in office for unofficial acts.
“Contrary to defendant’s contention, Clinton v Jones did not suggest that its reasoning would not apply to state court actions. It merely identified a potential constitutional concern. Notwithstanding that concern, this Court should not be deterred from holding that a state court can exercise jurisdiction over the President as a defendant in a civil lawsuit,” they said in their decision.
Trump doesn't get to insinuate and conjure up loopholes to get his way on this one...ITS ABOUT TIME!
joncoopertweets The crack of dawn isn't safe around trump! They don't call him Dirty Don for nothing!😫
joncoopertweets This will piss off the great orange Twitter twit, aka... realDonaldTrump
dcpoll Hahahaha GOP
Guess Russia collusion is an afterthought now...going back to female collusion now...LoL 😝
Ha ha. While Trump the Weak was pretending to be tough today, other people were being smart. How tough is Trump? Trump is so tough he can crush a regular 8-oz yogurt container with his bare hands. So tough he faked an injury to avoid the draft DURING WARTIME. Big blowhard!!!
I'm going to start to eat popcorn just to eat popcorn while watching the house crumble.
Your welcome Democrats , love Mom HillaryClinton
SharonAnnLo I hope everyday the truth will prevail . Sometimes it seems hopeless.
Waaaaazzz
PrincessBravato
NY COURT SAYS IT ALLL
So when does he get to testify?
PrincessBravato Pass me another slice of irony please...mmmm...delicious.
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The past comes back to haunt them 😂 karma is real
When GOP games come back to haunt them.
Gold digging ho
Awww, sweet, sweet discovery!
glennasonly 👏👏👏
Dear TraitorInChief FakePresident realDonaldTrump - HaveANiceDay!
So she gets kissed. Doesn’t tell anyone. Then agrees to go to dinner with him and gets kissed again / molested. Doesn’t tell anyone. Then when he wins presidential election she finally decides to file a defamation suit. I just can’t take people like this seriously.
Bring it on! Can’t wait for the depositions
She lies
The look tho😍
What a terrible decision. Like him or not I want POTUS dedicating all his time to running the Country not defending some trashy lawsuit.
Hope this case go to trial & not settled out of court. We want to see truth & not lies. World should know as we've president he accuse & abuse females with no respect for his daughter or any other parent child.
deposition biff...under oath..priceless.
Another person that needs attention.
Funny and biased courts. And trump is busy trying to swing courts the other way.
TRIVIA NONSENSE
Fahrenthold This is what the country has as a president and the Rublicanarty keeps backing him. So, so sad.
Fahrenthold Which, ironically, George Conway pushed to the SCOTUS.
So let me get this straight... WP has ads and y’all still want me to pay to read a virtual article too? And this is why WP’s post barely has comments regarding the actual article. You’re only giving us the titles, the rest we have to pay? *smdh*
Fahrenthold EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING ALL THE TIME
Here we see Wapo in the death throes of their narrative. Hilarious.
Thanks to gtconway3d !
Great news! realDonaldTrump
Sweet Justice! And if it happens to involve ANYTHING to do with the Clintons, all the better🙌🏻
the irony is rich with this one
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