Overview
- All active Eleventh Circuit judges declined to even poll for rehearing, according to a one-paragraph per curiam order.
- Trump sued CNN in 2022 seeking $475 million over the network’s use of the phrase “Big Lie” to describe his 2020 election claims.
- In 2023, U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal dismissed the case with prejudice, finding the challenged statements were opinion and that Trump had not shown actual malice.
- A three-judge Eleventh Circuit panel later affirmed, holding that calling Trump’s claims the “Big Lie” was not a false statement of fact and deeming his arguments unpersuasive.
- None of the court’s Trump-nominated active judges supported rehearing, and Trump’s remaining path is a Supreme Court petition that would require at least four justices to grant review.