Supreme Court declines to revive Carter Page lawsuit over FBI surveillance tied to Trump-Russia probe

June 15, 2026 10:47am EDT / Fox News

Page recently reached a $1.25M settlement with the federal government but sought to hold individual officials liable

By Bradford Betz, Fox News

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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a lawsuit brought by former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page challenging FBI surveillance conducted during the bureau’s investigation into alleged ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The justices denied Page’s appeal, leaving lower court rulings in place and effectively ending his effort to hold former FBI Director James Comey and other former government officials personally liable for what he alleged was unlawful surveillance. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did not participate in the case.

Page, who served as a foreign policy advisor to Trump’s 2016 campaign, was the subject of secret surveillance warrants approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2016 and 2017 as part of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

He was never charged with a crime and has long denied allegations that he acted as an agent of Russia.

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Carter Page, Former Foreign-Policy adviser to Donald Trump during his 2016 Presidential Election Campaign visits “The David Webb Show” On SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 at SiriusXM Studios on January 14, 2020 in New York City.(Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

The case became one of the most controversial chapters of the Trump-Russia investigation after a Justice Department inspector general report identified significant errors and omissions in the FBI’s applications to surveil Page. Former FBI and Justice Department officials involved in approving the warrants later said they would not have signed off on the applications had they known the full extent of the problems identified by investigators.

Carter Page, former advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, addresses the audience during a presentation in Moscow, Russia, on Dec. 12, 2016.

In response to the watchdog findings, the FBI implemented dozens of corrective measures aimed at improving the accuracy and completeness of future surveillance applications.

Page sued Comey and other former officials, alleging they violated his constitutional rights by submitting flawed applications to obtain surveillance authority. Lower courts dismissed the case, finding, among other things, that Page had not sued the officials who directly carried out the surveillance.

Page recently reached a $1.25 million settlement with the federal government related to the surveillance claims but sought to continue pursuing claims against individual former officials.

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The Supreme Court offered no explanation for declining review, as is customary when turning away appeals.

The Supreme Court of the United States building is illuminated at night in Washington, D.C., showing the main entrance, the West Facade with the marble pediment, and the inscription “Equal Justice Under Law.”(Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

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The decision marks the latest legal chapter stemming from the Russia investigation, which examined whether members of Trump’s 2016 campaign coordinated with Moscow’s efforts to influence the election. Special counsel Robert Mueller ultimately concluded that Russia interfered in the election but did not establish that members of the Trump campaign criminally conspired with Russia.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Supreme Court to decide if migrants detained for months must receive bond hearings

2026-06-15T13:39:57.528Z / CNN

By John Fritze

Updated 1 hr 32 min ago
Updated Jun 15, 2026, 9:43 AM ET
PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2026, 9:39 AM ET

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Summary

• The Supreme Court will decide whether the government can hold noncitizens in detention for prolonged periods without bond hearings.
• The case involves two green card holders convicted of aggravated felonies who were detained for seven months and nearly two years without hearings.
• A ruling could significantly affect the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies.

AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide if the government may hold noncitizens in detention for prolonged periods without a bond hearing, a case that could have significant implications for the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration.

At the center of the dispute are two green card holders who had been convicted of aggravated felonies that immigration officials sought to deport to the Dominican Republic in one case and to Jamaica in the other. One of the men was held for seven months and the other for nearly two years as their removal cases were pending.

Neither received a hearing to assess whether they were a flight risk or could be released on bond.

A federal appeals court in New York ruled in 2024 that the due process clause requires a bond hearing for prolonged detention for noncitizens. The Trump administration appealed that decision to the Supreme Court in January, arguing that it was “seriously misguided.”

The law at issue requires mandatory detention for noncitizens convicted of a list of crimes. The Trump administration has reclassified certain types of immigrants to sweep far more people into mandatory detention — a move that has been repeatedly challenged in court and that is likely to be ultimately reviewed by the Supreme Court.

The two men at the center of the case are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, which argued that the Supreme Court should decline to hear the case. That’s partly because, the group said, one of the men had already left the country and the other was released and, according to his attorneys, ICE has not attempted to re-detain him.

In 2016, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a similar challenge and concluded that federal law did not require bond hearings. But the court’s divided decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito, declined to answer whether the Constitution would require those hearings after prolonged detention.

“The court reads the statute as forbidding bail, hence forbidding a bail hearing, for these individuals,” liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, who has since retired, wrote in dissent at the time. “In my view, the majority’s interpretation of the statute would likely render the statute unconstitutional.”

The Trump administration also appealed the 2nd Circuit’s holding that, in order to continue detention, the government must prove that a noncitizen poses a flight risk or is a danger to the community with a higher standard of evidence than is required in other cases.

Supreme Court declines to take up suspended 98-year-old judge’s bid to hear cases again

June 15, 2026 / 10:32 AM EDT / CBS News

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away Judge Pauline Newman’s bid to return to service on a federal appeals court after she was suspended from hearing cases due to concerns about her fitness to serve.

Newman, who is 98, has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 1984. Established in 1982, the Federal Circuit hears appeals in cases involving international trade, patents, trademarks, veterans’ benefits and money claims against the U.S. government.

Across her more than four decades on the Federal Circuit, Newman has authored more than 300 dissenting opinions, earning her the nickname the “Great Dissenter.”

But three years ago, the Judicial Council for the Federal Circuit, which consists of the circuit judges in active service, suspended Newman from hearing cases. The court’s chief judge, Kimberly Moore, also told Newman she could either retire or consider senior status, a form of semi-retirement in which judges take on a lighter caseload.

After Newman refused either option, Moore entered an order that identified a judicial complaint against the then-96-year-old judge and found “there is probable cause to believe that Judge Newman’s health has left her without the capacity to perform the work of an active judge and that her habitual delays are prejudicial to the efficient administration of justice.”

Judge Pauline Newman in her office in Washington, D.C., in 2023. Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Moore’s filing referenced health issues Newman suffered in the summer of 2021 and a fainting episode in 2022, and said judges and staff on the Federal Circuit had expressed concerns about Newman’s inability to keep up with her workload.

Moore and a special committee of two Federal Circuit judges then investigated Newman’s fitness to continue serving and ordered the judge to submit to neurological and neuropsychological testing. The panel also requested she turn over medical records and participate in an interview.

While Newman provided expert reports from two doctors, the committee recommended Newman “not be permitted to hear any cases” for one year, subject to renewal. The Judicial Council approved the recommendation in September 2023.

Newman asked a panel of the Judicial Conference of the United States, the policy-making body for the federal courts, to review her suspension, though it rejected her arguments in February 2024.

The Federal Circuit then renewed Newman’s suspension for another year in September 2024, and again in August 2025.

Amid her suspension, Newman filed a lawsuit against Moore and her colleagues on the Federal Circuit and sought to prevent the Judicial Council from taking action against her in the future. The judge argued that the panel violated the Constitution by effectively removing her from office despite life tenure protections and denied her due process.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ultimately ruled against Newman, finding that the Disability Act prevents litigants from bringing certain constitutional challenges to a judicial council’s authority.

In urging the Supreme Court to take up her case, Newman’s lawyers claimed that Moore was circumventing the Constitution’s protections for federal judges in an attempt to sideline a judge she doesn’t want to serve with. They also accused the Federal Circuit judges of trying to silence a colleague who often dissents.

“This administrative removal of a judge who is famous for dissenting from her colleagues, by those same colleagues, with judicial refusal to review the merits of the action, undermines the judicial independence that is a vital foundation of our constitutional design,” Newman’s lawyers wrote in a filing. “Every judge who gets crosswise with her chief judge or her colleagues must now worry whether similar tactics could be used to remove them.”

The Justice Department, which represented Moore and the other judges,urged the Supreme Court to turn away Newman’s case.

The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is representing Newman, said it is disappointed in the high court’s denial of the appeal, but said it would continue to push for her reinstatement.

“It is a dark day for the independence of the federal judiciary,” Mark Chenoweth, the group’s president, said in a statement. “The cert denial in this case means that Judge Newman’s due process and other complaints about the way Chief Judge Moore and the Federal Circuit Judicial Council have treated her never have and never will receive a merits decision from an Article III court. That is utterly inexcusable and truly inexplicable.”

Supreme Court won’t hear Trump ex-campaign aide’s bid to sue former FBI officials

2026-06-15 13:52:14 / Reuters

One-time advisor of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump Carter Page addresses the audience during a presentation in Moscow, Russia, December 12, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

• Summary

• Page was adviser to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign
• Lawsuit alleged unlawful spying by former FBI officials

WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a bid by Carter Page, an adviser to President Donald ​Trump’s 2016 campaign, to revive a lawsuit against former FBI officials accusing them of unlawfully ‌obtaining warrants to surveil him during its probe into Russian interference in that year’s election.

The justices on Monday turned away Page’s

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of rulings by lower courts dismissing remaining elements of a lawsuit he filed in 2020 alleging he had been the ​victim of unlawful spying. The Trump administration agreed to pay a reported $1.25 million to resolve the ​rest of the claims he had also brought against the government.

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That partial settlement left ⁠remaining claims Page had also been pursuing against numerous former officials. They include former FBI Director James ​Comey, his former deputy Andrew McCabe and Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to altering ​an email that had been used to seek court approval to wiretap Page.

Page’s lawsuit alleged that, while volunteering as a member of an informal foreign policy advisory committee to Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign, he became a target of an FBI ​surveillance program aimed at determining if anyone associated with the campaign was coordinating activities with Russia.

The FBI ​during the investigation obtained four warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil Page.

But later reviews by the U.S. ‌Justice Department’s ⁠inspector general discovered that the FBI made numerous errors in its warrant applications to the court, which is tasked with reviewing classified requests from agencies for surveillance warrants. The inspector general released its main report on the matter in 2019, during Trump’s first term as president.

Page was never charged and has denied having had ​any improper communications with ​or ties to Russia. ⁠He asked the Supreme Court to hear his case after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2025 upheld a judge’s dismissal ​of his lawsuit on the grounds that it was filed too late.

The D.C. ​Circuit said that ⁠his surveillance claim was subject to a three-year statute of limitations that kicked in when Page first became aware of the FBI’s surveillance, which it traced to an April 2017 article by the Washington Post about the ⁠operation.

Page, in ​asking the Supreme Court to consider his case, argued that ​the clock for the statute of limitations should instead be found to have begun ticking when the government acknowledged unlawfully surveilling him, rather ​than when an anonymously sourced news story was published.

Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Will Dunham

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Nate Raymond reports on the federal judiciary and litigation. He can be reached at nate.raymond@thomsonreuters.com.

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万斯星期一（6月15日）接受美国消费者新闻与商业频道采访时，发表上述言论。

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另据美国有线电视新闻网报道，万斯称美伊协议星期天（14日）签署电子谅解备忘录。

早前有报道说，美伊谅解备忘录签署仪式预计于星期五（19日）在瑞士日内瓦举行。万斯说，协议的许多细节仍有待敲定。他没透露美方会派谁出席签字仪式。

Federal judge who had sex in chambers apologizes to former clerk as impeachment push ramps up

June 15, 2026 10:26am EDT / Fox News

A federal judge in Georgia has apologized to a former law clerk for “harmful, offensive, and unprofessional behavior” amid allegations she had engaged in sexual activity with a high-ranking uniformed police officer in her office during working hours and within earshot of staff.

The apology comes as two House Republicans from Georgia have filed articles of impeachment for U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross.

“You deserved better than to have your experience marred by my own offensive conflict,” Ross, who serves in the Northern District of Georgia, wrote in a letter last week, adding that her “actions were patently wrong, and there is no excuse,” and her previous letter to the clerk was “entirely deficient, as I did not take full accountability for my actions, and I failed to give you the apology that you deserve.”

“I also want to convey my deepest apologies to you for my false accusation against you,” the letter continued. “Again, I have no excuse and immensely regret my behavior.”

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Judge Eleanor Ross was nominated by former President Barack Obama in 2014 and approved in the Senate later that year.(Vino Wong/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Ross, nominated by former President Barack Obama in 2014, was disciplined after investigators found she had sex with a police officer in her chambers and then lied about it.

Reps. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., and Clay Fuller, R-Ga., filed separate impeachment resolutions against Ross following the judicial misconduct investigation. Federal judges are appointed for life and can only be removed through impeachment by Congress.

“When judges become political activists or engage in judicial misconduct, Congress bears both the responsibility and the constitutional authority to hold them accountable,” Clyde said. “Judge Ross’ deeply disturbing actions prove she is incapable of displaying integrity or showing impartiality.”

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Federal Judge Eleanor Ross was accused of having sex with Atlanta Police Department Deputy Chief Kelley Collier in her chambers and within earshot of her staff, according to articles of impeachment drafted in the House by two Republicans.(AP)

Ross provided materially false statements to senior judicial officials during the course of an internal inquiry, potentially obstructing efforts to fully assess misconduct concerns and impacting the administration of the court, according to Fuller, who said these issues represent a serious breach of judicial ethics and a serious failure to uphold the basic standards required of federal judges.

“The American people expect and deserve a judiciary system that operates with the highest level of integrity, professionalism, and accountability,” Fuller said. “Judge Ross has no place on the federal bench.”

“This behavior is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated on any level within our courts, and most certainly not in the State of Georgia,” Fuller added.

The investigation, initiated by 11th U.S. Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor, also examined allegations that Ross attended a partisan political event, failed to properly supervise clerks and yelled and cursed at staff. A special committee ultimately found that Ross had sex in the courthouse, attended a partisan event and initially lied when confronted with the allegations.

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Ross received a “private reprimand” that did not publicly name her. She also agreed not to seek the position of chief judge for the district when eligible and to write apology letters to six former law clerks.

Clyde filed three articles of impeachment against Ross, accusing her of improper sexual activity in chambers, attending a partisan political event and obstructing an official proceeding. Clyde’s resolution states that Ross engaged in an extramarital affair from roughly October 2023 through October 2025 with high-ranking Atlanta Police Department officer Kelley Collier, and that the relationship was not disclosed to judges, court staff or litigants.

The articles allege that Ross and Collier had sex in Ross’ chambers during business hours, and that at least three former clerks heard sounds from the judge’s chambers, creating what the resolution described as an uncomfortable workplace.

“She’s simply unfit to remain a U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, which is why I’m leading the charge to impeach Judge Ross and ultimately remove her from the bench,” Clyde concluded.

Cosponsors of his articles of impeachment include Reps. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.; Sheri Biggs, R-S.C.; Buddy Carter, R-Ga.; John Carter, R-Texas; Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.; Andy Harris, R-Md.; and Andy Ogles, R-Tenn.

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Rep. Clay Fuller, R-Fla., represents Georgia’s 14th District, replacing former Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

Fuller filed a separate impeachment article, saying Ross “engaged in extra-marital affairs with a high ranking officer of the Atlanta police department within her chambers during official court hours, while actively presiding over criminal matters.”

Clyde’s articles also accuse Ross of attending an event hosted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ campaign the evening before she presided over a criminal revocation proceeding. The resolution says Ross told interns and staff the next morning that she had consumed “too many martinis” at the campaign event.

Ross told investigators she attended a “mixer” for former employees of a district attorney’s office where she used to work, but said it was in a separate room from the victory party.

The articles further accuse Ross of making “numerous, material false statements” to Pryor and the chief district judge when she initially responded to the allegations. The resolution says Ross denied having sexual intercourse in her office or anywhere else in the courthouse and said she was “astounded and confused” by the allegation.

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Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, is seeking to impeach Obama-nominated Judge Eleanor Ross out of Georgia.(Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Ross did not recant those statements until Oct. 10, 2025, after the special committee had gathered corroborating evidence. The resolution says the committee declined to treat the recantation as absolution because it came only after Ross likely knew her false statements had been, or were about to be, exposed.

Pryor first asked Ross to respond to the allegations last fall. Ross replied the same day and “specifically denied” them, then suggested in a follow-up email that the law clerk might have invented the claims in retaliation for being required to work in the office.

The special committee reviewed logs and security footage showing that an officer had frequently visited Ross’ chambers in uniform around lunchtime. Six clerks recalled seeing someone matching the officer’s description, and three remembered overhearing what might have been sexual activity in the judge’s office.

The committee found that clerks described an “eggshell culture,” but it did not find evidence of abusive behavior.

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The House Judiciary Committee will decide whether to open impeachment proceedings against Ross. If the House were to impeach her, the Senate would decide whether to remove her from the federal bench.

“Though I can never fully undo the harm that I have caused you, I hope that my acknowledgment of these failures is a small first step,” Ross wrote in her apology letter to the former clerk. “I will be taking further steps to ensure that this never happens again.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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