The Supreme Court declined to revive a lawsuit Carter Page, a former aide for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, brought against former FBI officials, including former Director James Comey, over the government’s secret spying on him as part of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.
The high court did not elaborate on its decision not to take up the case in its orders list released Monday. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did not take part in the consideration of the case, as she was originally assigned it in 2020 while serving on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, before she was elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2021 and to the Supreme Court in 2022. The Supreme Court’s decision not to take up Page’s appeal comes months after the Department of Justice settled the lawsuit against the government agencies named in the suit for $1.25 million.
Page filed the lawsuit in 2020 against the DOJ, FBI, and various former FBI officials, including Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page, alleging that the “unlawful spying” he alleges they conducted was predicated on the discredited Steele dossier to investigate alleged ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. The investigation did not find ties between Trump and Russia, and its basis has largely been discredited as documents related to it have been declassified.
