Supreme Court rejects Carter Page's effort to revive suit over FBI surveillance

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Carter Page's appeal, effectively ending his effort to revive a lawsuit against former FBI Director James Comey and other senior officials. The suit stemmed from surveillance warrants obtained during the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

This Supreme Court decision comes after the Trump administration settled with Page for $1.25 million in April. That settlement addressed Page's claims against the U.S. government under the PATRIOT Act, but it did not cover his allegations of violations concerning the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) against individual FBI officials.

Page, who served as an informal foreign-policy adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, was subjected to four FISA surveillance warrants between October 2016 and 2017. The FBI's internal watchdog later identified 17 "significant errors and omissions" in the applications for these warrants, particularly criticizing the bureau's reliance on the controversial "Steele dossier" compiled by Christopher Steele.

Page filed his lawsuit in November 2020, asserting that the surveillance was unlawful due to allegedly false and misleading warrant applications. However, both a U.S. District Court in 2022 and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 2024 dismissed his case. The appellate court ruled that the statute of limitations barred Page's claims against the federal entities and FBI personnel involved.