On Tuesday, civil trial procedures begin in the lawsuit filed by American E. Jane Carroll against former President Donald Trump, accusing him of raping her during the nineties of the last century.

On Tuesday, the jury selection process is scheduled to begin to consider the case in which the 79-year-old journalist says that the former Republican president assaulted her in a store in New York City, and defamed her when she revealed the incident years later.

Trump denies the charges against him in a case that is only one of a series of legal procedures he faces that may hinder his candidacy for the 2024 US elections and his quest for a second term in the White House, where he spent four years between 2017 and 2021.

The start of the new trial procedures comes after Trump appeared in court in early April in criminal cases related to paying money to a former porn star to buy her silence before the 2016 presidential elections, which he won at the expense of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

Trump became the first former or sitting US president to be charged with a criminal offense, and he also pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Carroll, a former journalist and opinion writer for Elle magazine, says that Trump raped her in the dressing room of a luxury clothing store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, noting that this assault occurred after the wealthy American asked for her opinion on shopping.

Carroll revealed this for the first time in excerpts from her book published by New York Magazine in 2019.

Trump responded at the time, saying that he had never met her and that she was a "total lie".

The journalist sued Trump for defamation for the first time in 2019, but was unable to include the rape charge because the statutory statute of limitations had expired.

However, a new law that became effective in New York as of November gives rape victims the right to sue even if decades have passed since they were sexually assaulted.

It gives them one year, after its issuance, to do so.

Carroll's lawyers filed a complaint accusing Trump of beating her "when he raped her and forcibly grabbed her."

The complaint also includes a charge of defamation over a post by Trump on social media platforms, in which he deemed her "insane."

The complaint sought unspecified damages for psychological harm, pain and suffering, insult to dignity, and reputational damage.

Trump is not expected to testify, as Carroll's lawyers confirmed that they do not intend to request to hear him in the trial, which is expected to extend from one to two weeks.

Among the most prominent cases haunting the forty-fifth president of the United States are the accusations leveled against him of exerting pressure on officials of the electoral process in the state of Georgia in 2020, and an investigation regarding his handling of the White House archives.