Supreme Court Rejects Michael Cohen's Appeal Without Comment in Lawsuit Against Trump

Oct 21, 2024, 02:42 PM

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected without comment an appeal from Michael Cohen, the disbarred lawyer and former confidant of Donald Trump, effectively ending his efforts to revive a lawsuit accusing the former president and federal officials of retaliatory imprisonment. Cohen, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to several charges, alleged that he was returned to prison and placed in solitary confinement in 2020 because he refused to agree not to publicly criticize Trump or halt plans to publish a tell-all memoir. By declining to hear the case, the Supreme Court leaves in place lower court rulings that dismissed Cohen's civil rights claims against Trump and others.