U.S. taxpayers won't pay for President Donald Trump's ongoing appeal of the $83 million defamation case that he owes author E. Jean Carroll, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. Wednesday.

A panel of judges for the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied Trump’s request that Justice Department lawyers present arguments in his appeal of E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against Trump.

“The Court will issue an opinion detailing its reasoning in due course,” reads the one-page order from the Second Circuit rejecting the request without further explanation.

Last year, a New York jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million in damages to the former Elle magazine columnist for defaming her in 2019 by denying her claim that he sexually assaulted her in a fitting room at Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. Trump has denied all the allegations.

Justice Department lawyers argued that because some of Trump’s alleged conduct fell under his role as president, the The Justice Department should be able to defend him in court.

Oral arguments in Trump's appeal are scheduled for June 24.

It is the latest setback for the president in his efforts to fight Carroll's two lawsuits in the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Last week, the Second Circuit denied Trump's request to reconsider his challenge to a $5 million civil judgment that another jury awarded Carroll in 2023.