Judge slams brakes on Trump's dismissal of pollster lawsuit
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Left: Pollster J. Ann Selzer (Jenny Condon Photography, used with permission of FIRE). Right: President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable at “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci).

Attorneys representing a retired 2024 election pollster and a leading Iowa newspaper sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s “blatantly improper” procedural maneuvers on Monday. They requested a federal judge to consider imposing sanctions if Trump continued his defiance.

According to the Des Moines Register, media company Gannett, and veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer, Trump’s behavior suggests he believes “compliance” with court directives is “optional.” Therefore, they assert he should not be granted an extension to file an amended federal complaint. They urged that the amendment be made without including “illegitimate” current and former state lawmaker “co-plaintiffs” and avoid adding any “new parties, allegations, or claims[.]”

“This is the second time Plaintiff Donald Trump has defied an order from this Court directing him to file an amended complaint removing the allegations he added ‘to defeat the Court’s jurisdiction over the case,'” the filing said. “The first time, after this Court denied Plaintiff’s remand motion and ordered him to file an amended complaint within seven days, he instead filed a motion for stay.”

“This Court promptly denied that motion and ordered Plaintiff to file his revised pleading on July 18th,” the defendants continued. “He’s now pulled the same stunt again.”

As Law&Crime previously reported, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger granted the defendants’ motion to strike the president’s notice of voluntary dismissal from the record because an appeal at that time remained pending at the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

After the 8th Circuit formally denied Trump permission to appeal, Trump “renewed” a motion for a stay of a refiling deadline that “rehashes the same rejected arguments as his prior attempt” while simultaneously asking the appellate court to consider withdrawing the mandate that returned the case to the district court, the defendants noted.

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