Trump to Challenge NY Sex-Abuse Law as Unconstitutional (2)

Former President Donald Trump is planning to argue that a New York law temporarily allowing people to sue over alleged sexual abuse that may have occurred decades earlier is unconstitutional.

A lawyer for Trump said Wednesday during a federal court hearing in Manhattan that the argument would be included in a motion to dismiss a Nov. 24 lawsuit by New York author E. Jean Carroll. She sued him for battery under the state’s new Adult Survivors Act, which lifts for one year the statute of limitations on sexual-assault claims that would otherwise be barred as too old.

Carroll ...