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After the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals slammed the door on former President Donald Trump’s civil immunity claims yesterday, writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial is set to move forward on schedule for next week. The ex-president tried and failed before the full 2nd Circuit — whose jurisdictions includes Connecticut, New York and Vermont — to reverse a 2nd Circuit panel’s prior ruling that Trump does not have civil immunity from actions he undertook as president, as it pertained to Carroll’s ongoing defamation suit. And the 2nd Circuit rebuffed his lawyers’ efforts to delay the January 1…

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