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Saturday 22 June 2019

The Supreme Court is seen under stormy skies in Washington,
Thursday, June 20, 2019.
Associated Press
Justices: Proof needed

that person knew

This Sept 10, 2010, file photo shows people lining up to enter the Bergdorf Goodman store, in New
York. he couldn't have gun
Associated Press
Trump faces new sexual assault WASHINGTON (AP) — The shouldn't. Otherwise, Brey-
er said, the law could en-
Supreme Court says pros-
allegation; he issues denial ecutors must prove that snare someone "brought
people charged with vio-
into the United States un-
lating federal gun laws lawfully as a small child
knew they were not al- and was therefore un-
WASHINGTON (AP) — A such incident, because it pushed her against a wall, lowed to have a weap- aware of his unlawful sta-
New York-based advice never happened," he said. pulled down her tights and on. The government says tus." Justice Samuel Alito
columnist claims Donald The Trump Organization, assaulted her in an episode the decision could affect wrote in a dissent that was
Trump sexually assaulted which Trump still owns, did that lasted under three thousands of prosecutions joined by Justice Clar-
her in a dressing room at not respond to a request minutes. of convicted criminals ence Thomas that the de-
a Manhattan department for comment from The As- Carrol said there were no who are barred from hav- cision "opens the gates to
store in the mid-1990s, ac- sociated Press, which has attendants in the dressing ing a firearm. a flood of litigation that is
cording to a first-person ac- not independently verified room area and she did not The court ruled 7-2 Friday sure to burden the lower
count published Friday by Carroll's account. file a report with the New in the case of a foreign courts."
New York magazine. Carroll did not immediately York Police Department. student from the United The gun violence preven-
Trump denied the allega- return a call for comment. She said she did, however, Arab Emirates who took tion group Everytown for
tions and said, "I've never During the 2016 presiden- tell two journalist friends, target practice at a Flor- Gun Safety had joined the
met this person in my life." tial campaign, more than one of whom urged her to ida shooting range, even Trump administration in
The allegation against a dozen women accused contact the police while though he had been dis- urging the court to reject
Trump by E. Jean Carroll is Trump of sexual miscon- the other advised her to missed from the Florida In- Rehaif's arguments.
included in her upcoming duct in earlier years. Trump keep quiet, citing Trump's stitute of Technology and "We are concerned to-
book about the "hideous has denied the allegations access to lawyers. was in the United States day's ruling will make it
men" that the Elle maga- and said the women are ly- New York magazine said illegally. He was pros- harder for law enforce-
zine columnist says she has ing. While those cases gen- it confirmed the accounts ecuted under a law that ment to impose account-
encountered throughout erally involved groping and of Carroll's friends but it did bars people who are in ability when people keep
her life. kissing without consent, not identify either individual the country illegally from or acquire guns they're
Carroll wrote that after Carroll alleged forced pen- by name. having guns. Prosecutors legally barred from pos-
what started as a friendly etration. Trump was caught on tape never proved that the stu- sessing, including due to
encounter with Trump at Carroll, now 75, wrote in her in 2005 boasting of grab- dent, Hamid Rehaif, knew felony and domestic vio-
Bergdorf Goodman in 1995 book excerpt on the mag- bing women by their geni- he couldn't have a gun, lence convictions," said
or 1996, the real estate mo- azine's website that Trump tals and kissing them with- and lower courts ruled Eric Tirschwell, Everytown's
gul pushed her up against recognized her as "that out permission. When the they didn't have to. litigation director.
a dressing room wall, un- advice lady" as he arrived tape became public weeks The same law is also an Rehaif was sentenced to
zipped his pants and forced at Bergdorf Goodman on before the November 2016 important tool to keep 18 months in prison.
himself on her. Carroll said Fifth Avenue just as she was general election, Trump guns away from convict- Friday's decision may not
that in a "colossal struggle," leaving. She said Trump in- said he never acted in any ed criminals. There were be the last word in his
she pushed him off and ran vited her to help him buy a of the ways described on more than 6,000 convic- case. Lower courts will
from the store. present for an unidentified the tape, and described it tions under the law dur- take a new look at its de-
In his statement, Trump "girl" and she agreed. as just "locker-room talk." ing the government's 2017 tails, including the school's
called the accusation Carroll said that after Trump In March, a New York state fiscal year, according to telling him his student visa
"fake news" and said there suggested a purchase of appeals court ruled that the U.S. Sentencing Com- would no longer be valid
was no evidence. lingerie or underwear, he Summer Zervos, a former mission. unless he transferred to
"No pictures? No surveil- grabbed a bodysuit and contestant on Trump's re- Justice Stephen Breyer another school. Prosecu-
lance? No video? No re- urged Carroll to try it on. ality TV show "The Appren- wrote in his majority opin- tors say Rehaif ignored
ports? No sales attendants After some joking around tice" who accused him ion that the law at issue the warning and instead
around?? I would like to about which one of them of unwanted kissing and requires prosecutors to spent months at a hotel in
thank Bergdorf Goodman should try it on, Trump led groping, can move for- show both that the person Melbourne, Florida, never
for confirming they have Carroll to a dressing room, ward with her defamation had a gun and knew he re-enrolling in school.q
no video footage of any where, she alleged, Trump lawsuit against him.q