President Donald Trump is refusing to abandon his legal fight over the Russia collusion saga. Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his dismissed lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, and numerous Democratic operatives.

The lawsuit accused Clinton and the other defendants of conspiring to damage Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign by falsely connecting him to Russia. Trump filed his Supreme Court petition on Friday after Justice Clarence Thomas granted a deadline extension.

The latest move follows a federal judge’s dismissal of the case and the imposition of nearly $1 million in sanctions against Trump and one of his lawyers. A federal appeals court later upheld both the dismissal and the sanctions.

Trump originally filed the landmark RICO action in federal court in Miami in March 2022. The defendants included Clinton, Comey, the Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, and numerous alleged participants in the sprawling scheme.

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The complaint alleged that the Clinton campaign and its allies funded the Steele dossier, which contained uncorroborated claims and falsehoods used to smear Trump. It also accused the defendants of abusing FISA warrants to spy on his campaign and launching the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

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President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his dismissed lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, accusing her, along with disgraced former FBI Director James Comey and numerous Democratic operatives, of conspiring to undermine his 2016 presidential campaign by falsely linking him to Russia. Trump filed the petition on Friday, after Justice Clarence Thomas granted an extension of the deadline. Read the rest of the story, link in the comments. — The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) October 11, 2026

That investigation followed Trump through his first presidential term. In the lawsuit, Trump sought treble damages exceeding $24 million for legal expenses, business losses, and political damage he attributed to the Russia collusion narrative.

Clinton appointed U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed the lawsuit in September 2022. Middlebrooks described the lengthy complaint as a “two-hundred-page political manifesto” and declined to recuse himself from the case.

Middlebrooks later imposed sanctions totaling roughly $938,000 against Trump and his then attorney, Alina Habba. He accused them of abusive litigation tactics, knowingly false allegations, and filing the lawsuit in bad faith to advance a political narrative rather than a legitimate claim.

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In November 2025, the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the dismissal and sanctions. Chief Judge William Pryor wrote the decision for a panel that also included Trump appointee Andrew Brasher.

Pryor declared that “many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous.” The court also rejected Trump’s contention that the statute of limitations should have been paused because he delayed the lawsuit while serving as president.

Trump maintained that he postponed the litigation so he could concentrate on his constitutional responsibilities during his first term. In May 2026, the full 11th Circuit denied a rehearing before the full court, leaving the sanctions intact.

Trump’s lawyers are now asking the Supreme Court to intervene “to protect the presidency.” They also seek to stop “a deeply troubling trend of federal courts using sanctions and disciplinary threats to punish the president and his lawyers for legitimate legal positions that those courts (erroneously) reject.”

The lawyers contend that the filing deadline should have been extended because Trump deliberately waited until after his first term. They argued that pursuing a private civil lawsuit would have consumed substantial time and energy while he was carrying out his responsibilities as chief executive.

The Russia collusion narrative was not supported by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, which found no evidence of conspiracy or collusion. Trump’s petition seeks another opportunity to litigate claims arising from the origins and handling of that narrative.

Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation documented the FBI’s reliance on the uncorroborated Steele dossier funded by the Clinton campaign. Durham also detailed the failure to investigate intelligence indicating that the Clinton campaign planned to connect Trump to Russia as a distraction from Clinton’s private email server scandal.

Declassified documents and inspector general reports have also addressed the political origins of the Russia narrative and abuses that followed. The Supreme Court now has an opportunity to consider whether the lawsuit and nearly $1 million in sanctions should remain buried or receive another judicial review.

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