The Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit of former President Trump advisor Carter Page on Monday, June 15, 2026.
Page sued former FBI officials over botched government surveillance he was subjected to as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the statute of limitations barred the suit.
Page, who had served in Trump’s Cabinet as a policy adviser in 2016, sued James Comey, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, and others over what the lawsuit claimed was investigators’ alleged use of a wiretap ordered under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
However, later a DoJ Inspector General report concluded that the process used to obtain the FISA warrant was based on a series of errors and errors.
Page had also filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Justice Department, but in April the Trump administration settled the lawsuit.
The remaining issues still pending before the appeals court related to the litigation involving FBI officials who worked under the Biden administration.
After Page’s appeal was rejected in lower courts, the former Trump adviser then appealed to the Supreme Court in December.
The findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report highlighted Page’s pre-campaign ties to two Russian intelligence officers, a visit he made to Moscow in the summer of 2016 and his meetings with Moscow officials.
Page filed a lawsuit in November 2020.
