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Mar 28, 2026

Supreme Court Just Cleared the Way And Ruled YES Trump Can Get His Revenge

FL Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Suit Against Pulitzer Prize Board to Proceed


The Florida Supreme Court has declined to take up a request from the Pulitzer Prize Board to pause a defamation lawsuit brought against it by President Donald Trump, allowing the case to move forward in state court.

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In a brief order issued this week, the state’s highest court declined to exercise jurisdiction, rejecting the board’s petition to delay the case until after Trump leaves office.

“This cause having heretofore been submitted to the Court on jurisdictional briefs and portions of the record deemed necessary to reflect jurisdiction under Article V, Section 3(b), Florida Constitution, and the Court having determined that it should decline to accept jurisdiction, it is ordered that the petition for review is denied,” the court wrote. “No motion for rehearing will be entertained by the Court.”

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Trump filed the lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board over its 2018 decision to award journalism’s top honor to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump has called that coverage false and defamatory, referring to the investigation as a “Russia collusion hoax.

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The lawsuit was filed in Florida, where Trump resides and where at least one member of the Pulitzer board also lives. The board had asked both the trial court and the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal to delay the case, arguing that allowing it to proceed while Trump remains in office could create constitutional conflicts by enabling a state court to exercise legal authority over a sitting president.

Attorneys for the board also raised concerns that the case could potentially involve questions about Trump’s official acts as president, and argued it should be postponed to avoid any intrusion into the executive branch.

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