The Daily Fuckup

Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court for more time to decide whether to seek review in his case against CNN. On July 1, 2026, he filed a second application asking for an extension of the deadline to file a petition for certiorari, moving the date from July 15 to August 14. As of July 13, 2026, the Court’s docket showed the application, but no order granting it.

This filing does not ask the justices to rule on the merits of the dispute. It asks only for more time to file the petition that would ask the Court to take the case. The docket in No. 25A1357 reflects the procedural posture: Trump already received one extension on June 5, which pushed the original June 15 deadline to July 15, and the July 1 filing sought a further extension from that date.

The underlying appellate case is Trump v. Cable News Network, Inc. The Eleventh Circuit’s unpublished opinion was issued on November 18, 2025, and rehearing en banc was denied on March 17, 2026. The Supreme Court application is aimed at that appellate sequence and asks for more time before any cert petition is due. It does not change the lower-court rulings already on the books.

For now, the only concrete development is the request itself: Trump wants a later filing deadline, and the Court had not yet acted on that request in the docket record reviewed here.