With the 2024 Iowa Caucuses now underway, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump maintains a sizable lead over his rivals in countless polls — despite facing four criminal indictments and a wide range of civil lawsuits, one of which is former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation case against the former president. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan laid out some rules in that civil case on Sunday, January 14, excluding as evidence things he considers “irrelevant.” The trial to determine the amount of damages Trump owes is scheduled to begin on January 16. Trump’s legal team, Kaplan ruled, can…