Trump’s Defamation Suit Against Pulitzer Board Can Proceed (2)

Pulitzer Prize board members lost their bid to pause President Donald Trump‘s defamation case against them until after his term ends.

Trump can pursue his defamation and conspiracy claims, but the board members could seek another stay if the president fails to perform his obligations to the litigation, Judge Robert L. Pegg of the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, in Okeechobee County, Fla., said in a Monday order.

Trump in 2022 sued several current and former Pulitzer Prize board members, alleging they conspired against and defamed him by declining to rescind Pulitzer Prize awards for articles ...