A federal appeals court on Friday rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to make the United States government the defendant in writer E. Jean Carroll’s successful defamation lawsuit against him, explaining the request came “simply too late.

A famously liberal circuit court ruled in President Trump’s favor, authorizing a component of his sweeping effort to assert more control over the federal bureaucracy.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday dismissed a lower court's order that Trump administration officials could be held in contempt for efforts related to deporting hundreds of Venezuelans.