The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up an attempt by Pulitzer Prize board members to halt a defamation lawsuit that President Donald Trump filed after the board refused to rescind a 2018 award to The New York Times and The Washington Post.

The Supreme Court’s decision effectively leaves in place a May 28 decision by the state’s 4th District Court of Appeal that denied a request for a stay of the lawsuit. As is common, the Supreme Court did not explain its decision.

The dispute stemmed from a lawsuit that Trump filed in 2022 in Okeechobee County contending he was defamed by a statement posted online by the Pulitzer board. That statement came after Trump requested that the board rescind the joint 2018 award to the two newspapers for reporting about alleged Russian interfe

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