Read all!-----The E. Jean Carroll case rested on a sequence of legal maneuvers with no precedent in American civil litigation.

Democratic legislators passed a retroactive temporary law eliminating the statute of limitations for decades-old accusations that could not be dated, located, or defended with alibis.  - Bill Brindley

• A Democratic mega-donor secretly funded the plaintiff’s legal costs through a nonprofit. 
• The arrangement stayed hidden until one of Trump’s lawyers discovered it...
• The jury explicitly checked “no” on the verdict form’s specific rape question. 
• The judge ruled rape proven anyway, claiming the jury had used a common rather than statutory definition… an impossibility, since their rejection under the common definition precludes rape by any standard...