The Daily Fuckup

Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court for another month to prepare his petition in the defamation case against CNN. In docket 25A1357, Trump filed a July 1 application seeking a further 30-day extension, which would move the filing deadline from July 15 to August 14. Justice Clarence Thomas had already granted a first extension on June 5.

The application says Trump wants more time under Rule 13.5 because of scheduling demands, the need for counsel to confer further with him, and other deadlines facing his legal team. It also identifies the judgment he wants reviewed: the Eleventh Circuit’s March 17, 2026 order denying rehearing en banc. That order followed the panel opinion issued Nov. 18, 2025, which affirmed dismissal of Trump’s defamation suit.

The filing does not say the justices have agreed to take the case. It asks only for more time to ask them. Trump says the petition will raise questions including whether allegedly false accusations that someone engaged in criminal conduct can support a defamation claim and whether the line between fact and opinion should be decided by a jury rather than at the motion-to-dismiss stage.

The Supreme Court docket shows the case in a procedural holding pattern for now: an initial extension, a new request for another one, and a petition date that keeps slipping further out. For the moment, that is the news. The merits are still parked behind the filing deadline.