The Supreme Court on Monday turned down, for the second time this year, a plea by President Trump to nullify a New York jury’s verdict of more than $5 million for a woman writer who sued him for sexual assault.

The Court issued a brief order as part of a list of routine legal actions during its summer recess.  There was no explanation and no report on how the nine Justices had voted.

The action, however, may not put an end to a seven-year legal drama between Trump and author and magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.  The verdict funds, now totaling nearly $6 million with interest added, have already been paid to Carroll.  Trump, however, has another challenge still pending in a lower court.

Separately, Trump has a new appeal awaiting the Supreme Court’s response, involving another jury verdict of $83.3 million.   That can’t be paid to Carroll while that case is unresolved.

(A fuller report on these developments will appear on this site later today.)