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Michael Cohen attends “The Apprentice” New York premiere at the DGA Theater on October 08, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by John Nacion/Getty Images)
OAN Staff James Meyers 10:04 AM – Monday, October 21, 2024
The Supreme Court has dismissed ex-lawyer Michael Cohen’s appeal to revive a lawsuit against 45th President Donald Trump on Monday, shutting down Cohen’s claims for the final time.
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In 2020, Cohen claimed his imprisonment was retaliation by Trump’s administration for publishing a book critical of the former president. The lawsuit was seeking monetary damages from Trump, former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, federal prison officials and the federal government.
“Michael Cohen has exhausted every avenue of his pathetic attempt to drag my client into court time and time again. As expected, the Supreme Court has correctly denied Michael Cohen’s petition and he must finally abandon his frivolous and desperate claims,” Trump attorney Alina Habba posted in a statement on X.
Michael Cohen has exhausted every avenue of his pathetic attempt to drag my client into court time and time again. As expected, the Supreme Court has correctly denied Michael Cohen’s petition and he must finally abandon his frivolous and desperate claims.
Meanwhile, Cohen had served three years in prison for multiple federal crimes for his work that related to Trump, which included lying to Congress. However, he was released on home confinement during the pandemic, but was then sent back behind bars after refusing to sign an agreement limiting his postings on social media and contacts with the press.
“The Constitution is the bedrock of our democratic republic and is what makes America the beacon of the world,” Cohen said of his lawsuit in July. “To have a President weaponize the DOJ… is how autocracies are created.”
The disgraced lawyer argued that he was sent back to prison, on the alleged orders of Trump and Justice Department officials in July 2020 in retaliation for his writing his first tell-all book, “Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump.”
“Presidents are not kings,” Cohen wrote in his petition to the Supreme Court. “This case represents the principle that presidents and their subordinates can lock away critics of the executive without consequence. That cannot be the law in the country the Founders thought they created when they threw off the yoke of the monarch.”
Two courts ruled against Cohen’s initial claim, based on a small reading of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the 1971 case Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, which provides citizens the limited legal right to sue federal officials who violate their constitutional rights.
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