BREAKING: Trump Drops Lawsuit Against Iowa Pollster Ann Selzer

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33. Trump drops federal lawsuit against Iowa pollster, refiles in state court

trump was losing in federal court and had tried earlier to move the case back to state court. This dismissal and refiling smells

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/01/trump-iowa-lawsuit-poll-state-court/

Lawyers for President Donald Trump on Monday filed a motion to drop his federal lawsuit against longtime Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register newspaper, and refiled the suit in an Iowa state court.....

Attorneys for the newspaper sought to block the dismissal of the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Central Division. They argued that Trump and his co-plaintiffs — Bradley Zaun, a Republican former Iowa state senator, and federal Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) — had previously sought to have the case remanded to a state court and were refused. An appeal of this decision was still active, they added in a motion filed Monday......

Trump’s legal team wrote in a filing to the Iowa Southern District Court that, “Plaintiffs President Donald J. Trump, Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, and Former State Senator Bradley Zaun, give notice of their dismissal of this action without prejudice pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(1)(A)(i).”

Trump’s legal team refiled the lawsuit against Selzer and the Des Moines Register in the Iowa state court for Polk County, according to court documents.

Bob Corn-Revere, chief counsel of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which is providing legal representation for Selzer’s defense, told The Washington Post that it was aware of the voluntary dismissal in federal court. “There is no settlement in the case,” he added. “We are reviewing next steps as we continue to defend J. Ann Selzer’s First Amendment rights.”

In a later statement, FIRE said on social media that the attempt to change jurisdiction was “procedural gamesmanship” and “a transparent attempt to avoid federal court review of the president’s transparently frivolous claims.”