The Supreme Court on Monday put an end to Michael Cohen’s attempt to sue Donald Trump after he claimed he was abruptly sent back to prison in 2020 as retaliation for writing a tell-all book about the former president.
The justices rejected Cohen’s appeal of a lower court’s dismissal of his suit.
Cohen said Trump and others tried to silence him by revoking his home release and putting him in solitary confinement.
Cohen, who had served as Trump's personal attorney and fixer, was serving a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to coordinating payoffs to buy the silence of women who said they had sexual affairs with Trump before he was elected.
Cohen was transitioning to home confinement in 2020 when he announced he had finished a book about Trump. Cohen says he refused probation officers’ demand that he not use social media or talk to the news media, so he was taken back to prison.
