Supreme Court declines to hear Carter Page's lawsuit regarding FBI surveillance

The Supreme Court declined to revive a lawsuit filed by Carter Page, a former advisor to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, challenging the FBI's surveillance during its investigation into alleged connections between the campaign and Russia. The Court's decision leaves in place previous lower court rulings, effectively ending Page's attempt to hold former FBI Director James Comey and other officials personally liable for what he claimed was unlawful surveillance. Page was subjected to secret surveillance warrants approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as part of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation but was never charged with a crime. The lawsuit was dismissed by lower courts, which noted that Page did not sue the officials who directly conducted the surveillance. Page had previously reached a $1.25 million settlement with the federal government related to the surveillance claims but sought to continue his legal actions against individual former officials. The Supreme Court did not provide an explanation for its decision to decline the case.