7/23 – Last week a Florida state court sided with former President Donald Trump and denied a motion to dismiss filed by the Pulitzer Prize Board in Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Board.  Trump had asked the Board to rescind prizes awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post for their reporting on the ties between Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign.  The Board, however, stated that it had conducted a review of those awards, and found that nothing in the reports were “discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.”  Former President Trump contended that the omission of Special Counsel Muller’s findings from the Board’s statement made the statement false and defamatory and satisfied the actual malice standard.  The court’s ruling means that the case  is now headed to discovery, which will allow Trump’s legal team to question Pulitzer officials.