<p class="wp-block-paragraph">President Donald Trump on Friday asked the Supreme Court to reinstate a lawsuit he filed in 2022, accusing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of conspiring with the FBI and other parties to undermine his first presidential campaign.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Trump has alleged that Clinton coordinated with then-FBI Director James Comey and the Democratic National Committee to fabricate claims that Trump’s team colluded with Russia to influence the election. A federal judge in Florida dismissed Trump’s lawsuit regarding the Russia allegations in 2022, a ruling upheld by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which also ordered Trump’s team to pay nearly $1 million in sanctions.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In his recent appeal, Trump’s team argued that he delayed filing the lawsuit until after his presidency to avoid distractions during his term. This raises the question of whether a president's duties justify extending certain legal deadlines while in office.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Faced with this conspiracy during his term, President Trump concluded that any private civil lawsuit would consume substantial time and energy and that any civil suit should therefore be postponed until after his term,” the lawsuit states, according to CNN.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The filing also claims, “This court’s intervention is necessary to protect the presidency, and to prevent judicial disagreement from becoming a license to punish its advocates.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Clinton has faced scrutiny regarding Comey’s investigation into the alleged Russia collusion.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In 2025, a government watchdog filed an ethics complaint against Clinton for promoting the Steele dossier during the 2016 campaign, a document that has been largely discredited and was central to the government’s Russia-Trump investigation. In 2022, the Federal Election Commission fined Clinton’s campaign team and the Democratic National Committee for financing research into the Steele dossier while misrepresenting the funding as legal services.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Clinton campaign denied the allegations of misrepresentation but agreed to settle the case by paying $113,000 to the FEC.</p>