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The Supreme Court on July 10 gave Donald Trump until August 14 to seek review in his defamation case against CNN. The move followed a June 5 order that had already pushed the deadline from June 15 to July 15.
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The Supreme Court on July 10 gave Donald Trump until August 14 to seek review in his defamation case against CNN. The move followed a June 5 order that had already pushed the deadline from June 15 to July 15.
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The Supreme Court on July 10 gave Donald Trump until August 14 to seek review in his defamation case against CNN. The move followed a June 5 order that had already pushed the deadline from June 15 to July 15.
The Supreme Court docket in No. 25A1357 shows that Donald Trump’s further extension request was filed July 1, 2026, and that Justice Clarence Thomas granted it on July 10, 2026. The order extends the deadline to file a petition for certiorari to August 14, 2026.
Trump filed a July 1 Supreme Court application asking for a 60-day extension of time to file a cert petition in Trump v. CNN, moving the deadline from July 15 to August 14, 2026. The filing is procedural only and does not say anything about how the justices will handle the case on the merits.
As of July 13, the Supreme Court had not acted on Trump’s request for a further extension to seek review in his CNN case, leaving the deadline fight unresolved.
Trump filed a further extension request in his CNN-related Supreme Court case on July 1, and as of July 13 the docket shows no order on that request. Justice Thomas had already granted one extension, moving the cert deadline to July 15.
Trump filed a July 1 application asking the Supreme Court to extend the deadline for a petition for certiorari in his CNN case from July 15 to August 14. No order granting the request had appeared on the Court’s docket as of July 13, 2026.
Trump filed a further Supreme Court extension request on July 1, 2026, asking to push the certiorari deadline in the CNN case from July 15 to August 14.
Trump’s lawyers filed a further extension request at the Supreme Court on July 1, seeking 30 more days to prepare a cert petition in the CNN defamation case. It is not a merits victory, just more time bought in an already-lost fight.
Trump asked Justice Clarence Thomas to extend the deadline for filing a Supreme Court petition in his CNN defamation case, which would push the cert deadline from July 15 to Aug. 14, 2026.
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