Judge Denies Trump’s Request to Delay Due Date of $83.3 Million Penalty

A federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday declined Donald J. Trump’s request to temporarily block the writer E. Jean Carroll from collecting an $83.3 million civil defamation judgment against him while the judge considers his request for a longer delay.

The ruling, only four paragraphs long, comes just days before Ms. Carroll will be allowed to begin taking action to collect her award, one of two civil judgments totaling more than half a billion dollars that the former president is seeking to delay while he pursues appeals in both cases.

Seeking to block Ms. Carroll from collecting on March 11, the former president last month asked the judge, Lewis A. Kaplan of Federal District Court, to push back the due date until after he had ruled on Mr. Trump’s request to have the verdict thrown out and be granted a new trial.

On Wednesday, the former president’s lawyers made a new request: that the judge not let Ms. Carroll begin to collect until the judge has ruled on Mr. Trump’s earlier request for a delay.

But on Thursday, the judge — who presided over Ms. Carroll’s trial, which ended Jan. 26 — said in an order that Mr. Trump’s professed need for a so-called administrative stay was the former president’s own fault.

“Mr. Trump’s current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions,” Judge Kaplan wrote. “He has had since Jan. 26 to organize his finances.”