A federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump a legal victory on Friday in his lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register over a 2024 poll that he claimed constituted “brazen election interference.”
Trump’s case will now land in the Iowa state court instead of federal court. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that an Obama-appointed judge had overstepped by denying Trump’s request for the case to be sent to state court. The new ruling was first reported by Fox News.
Trump’s legal team believes the case belongs in state court, whereas the defendants represented by Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression argue it should be litigated in federal court.
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The court said the case in district
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