Non paywalled version via Yahoo:
I think this may be his first trip outside the US since leaving office; I don’t know how I’d check that.
According to this NYT article, the trial already is in Federal Court; Judge Kaplan is on the federal District Court:
I assume it would be diversity jurisdiction, since Trump is now a resident of Florida? The Court will be applying New York state law of defamation and sexual assault, including the recent waiver of limitation periods for civil claims relating to sexual assault.
Actually, past bad conduct normally is excluded in a civil case, unless it comes within an exception to the rules of evidence. Here, the judge accepted Carroll’s argument that there is a specific evidentiary exception relating to sexual assault claims. It’s dealt with in the article cited above by @Jimmy_Chitwood .
If he loses this, his brownshirts will never, ever let it go. There will never be hard, physical evidence to show them. They’ll never go for a he said she said. But boo hoo, they’ll forget all about it after Jack, or Tish, or Alvin, get through with him.
Yes, that’s right. I should have said in a city that’s (allegedly) biased against him.
Without reading the linked article (not a subscriber so hopefully it’s addressed in there), the headline is a bit of a groaner. He’s renowned for his command of the courtroom in that he’s renowned for taking the law into his own hands, famously assigning a private prosecutor on behalf of Chevron to run Steven Donzinger out on a rail.
Ignorant question here.
Carroll says he raped her. Stormy Daniels says he has a tiny pee-pee. Did he actually penetrate her with his mushroom? Can rape be assault with no penetration? I don’t know the details of what happened in the dressing room. Are they public yet?
Yes, he’s quite an notorious judge. He’ll get the result he wants, one way or another. The only question is what result he wants.
The details are the subject of the trial, so none of us actually know. He says he wasn’t even there.
But the allegations are definitely known, and yes, it’s rape. She alleges he forcibly penetrated her.
Trump and Stormy Daniels definitely had sexual intercourse, but I don’t think that’s relevant here.
Thank you for the info!
Tiny pecker, all their clothes on, upright, and her not cooperating should make actual penetration difficult. The guy must’ve had a lot of practice 
Keep in mind that wether (or not) Trump actually raped Mrs. Carrol is irrelevant to the case. He is being sued for defamation.
No, she’s also suing for rape, under a special NY statute that waived limitation periods for certain civil suits alleging sexual assault.
Tiny or not, he has fathered children. The proof being that they are douchbags like their dad.
The defamation being that she is lying about the rape.
That among other statements for sure -
There are two lawsuits. The first is for defamation for saying she made it up when she published her book in 2019, and isn’t the one in this thread.
The second is for the actual rape itself, and for defamation for a Truth Social post saying she made it up. That’s this one.
In the first place, she’s suing for rape AND libel.
In the second place, of course the rape is relevant to the libel. If he didn’t rape her, then she’s lying. If she’s lying, then it isn’t libel to call her a liar.
Rape doesn’t have to be penetration with a penis.
True, there was the case a few years back where some high school football players in Maryland were charged with rape using a broomstick.
That’s what I was wondering. Legally, is “rape” penetration with anything? Fingers perhaps?