The Florida Supreme Court has rejected the Pulitzer Prize Board\u2019s request to pause a defamation lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump<\/strong>, allowing the case to continue in state court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a brief order, the court wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is ordered that the petition for review is denied.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n No motion for rehearing will be entertained by the Court.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump sued over the board\u2019s 2018 decision to award The New York Times and The Washington Post for coverage of alleged Russian election interference,<\/p>\n\n\n\n calling it a \u201cRussia collusion hoax.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n He claims the reporting was false and damaging to his reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both lower courts and the state\u2019s high court cited Clinton v. Jones (1997)<\/strong>, which held a sitting president isn\u2019t immune from civil lawsuits unrelated to official duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No trial date is set, but the case now returns to the trial court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Florida Court Allows Trump\u2019s Defamation Case to Proceed The Florida Supreme Court has rejected the Pulitzer Prize Board\u2019s request to pause a defamation lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump, allowing the case to continue in state court. Court Declines Jurisdiction In a brief order, the court wrote: \u201cIt is ordered that the petition for review is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4586,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions\/4586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Court Declines Jurisdiction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Background of the Lawsuit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Legal Context & Next Steps<\/h3>\n\n\n\n