迈克尔·科恩要求美国最高法院恢复他的诉讼指控前唐纳德·特朗普总统特朗普政府的一些官员在他寻求从联邦监狱获释时对他进行了报复。
科恩在曼哈顿服完联邦法官的刑期后于2018年判处他三年监禁各种罪行，包括竞选财务违规，逃税和向国会撒谎。男性被释放在家监禁在新冠肺炎疫情期间，他因拒绝释放条件而被送回监狱，该条件要求他放弃批评当时担任总统的特朗普的能力。科恩一直在写一本批评特朗普的书。
一名法官最终允许科恩在家服刑。然而，一名法官驳回了他对前总统的诉讼，一月份，一个上诉法官小组拒绝恢复诉讼。
“因此，就目前情况来看，这个案件代表了这样一个原则，即总统和他们的下属可以把行政部门的批评者关起来而不承担后果。科恩在提交给最高法院的请愿书中说:“这不可能是开国元勋们摆脱君主的束缚时所创立的国家的法律。
Michael Cohen asks SCOTUS to revive Trump lawsuit
Michael Cohenasked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to revive his lawsuit accusing formerPresident Donald Trumpand some Trump administration officials of retaliating against him when he sought release from federal prison.
Cohen served time after a federal judge in Manhattansentenced him in 2018 to three years in prisonfor various crimes, including campaign finance violations, tax evasion and lying to Congress. Hewas released to home confinementduring the COVID-19 pandemic but sent back to prison after he balked at a condition of his release that required him to waive his ability to criticize Trump, who was president at the time. Cohen had been writing a book critical of Trump.
A judge eventually allowed Cohen to serve the remainder of his sentence in home confinement. However, a judge tossed out his lawsuit against the former president, and in January, a panel of appellate judges declined to revive it.
"Thus, as it stands, this case represents the principle that presidents and their subordinates can lock away critics of the executive without consequence. That cannot be the law in the country the Founders created when they threw off the yoke of the monarch,” Cohen's petition to the Supreme Court said.
