Trump asks Supreme Court to revive his 2016 election lawsuit against Hillary Clinton

President Donald Trump has taken his long-running dispute with Hillary Clinton to the nation's highest court, asking the justices on Friday to reconsider a 2022 lawsuit that a judge in Florida branded frivolous. The suit accuses Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and dozens of other individuals and groups of plotting to damage his 2016 campaign by wrongly linking him to Russia, according to CNN.

A federal trial court threw out the claims and later held Trump's lawyers responsible for close to $1 million in sanctions. The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in Atlanta, mostly left that result in place last year. Judge Donald Middlebrooks, whom former President Bill Clinton appointed to the Southern District of Florida, wrote that no reasonable lawyer would have filed the complaint. Part of the dismissal rested on the finding that Trump's civil racketeering claims came too late.

Trump's new petition contends he deliberately held off until he left office, because a private suit would have drained time and energy during his term. CNN reports the filing argues that the trial judge wrongly dismissed this reasoning and misread his lawyers' advocacy as bad faith, leading to the penalties.

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