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

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)

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