E. Jean Carroll granted permission to seek more damages against Trump in defamation lawsuit.

A federal judge has allowed E. Jean Carroll to amend her defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to include comments he made at a CNN town hall. Carroll sought permission to amend the initial lawsuit to seek additional punitive damages after Trump repeated statements a federal jury found to be defamatory. Last month, a jury found in favor of Carroll in her second civil lawsuit, which went to trial. The judge also set a deadline of next month for the Justice Department to weigh in on whether it still believed that Trump was acting within the scope of his employment when he made the comments in 2019.