Supreme Court turns down Michael Cohen's bid to revive lawsuit against Trump
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by Michael Cohen to sue former President Donald Trump for allegedly retaliating against him by sending Cohen back to prison from home confinement over a tell-all book that criticized Trump.
The court's decision to turn away Cohen's appeal leaves intact a lower court ruling that tossed out the lawsuit based on a 2022 Supreme Court decision that limited citizens' ability to seek monetary damages from federal officials over constitutional violations.
Cohen served as one of Trump's closest legal advisers and was known as his longtime "fixer" before becoming one of the former president's loudest opponents in 2018, when he pleaded guilty to multiple felonies and implicated Trump in a "hush money" scheme intended to conceal damaging information before the 2016 election.
