The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request from the former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page to revive a lawsuit he had filed against the former F.B.I. director James Comey and others.
Mr. Page was wiretapped during the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. An inspector general report subsequently revealed errors and omissions that made Mr. Page look more suspicious.
Mr. Page was never charged with a crime, but he sued Mr. Comey and seven others over botched court applications permitting surveillance of his phone calls and emails. Although the wiretapping was just a part of a much larger investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump and his allies used it to try to broadly discredit the inquiry.
Lower court judges had dismissed Mr. Page’s lawsuit challenging the surveillance by the F.B.I., saying he waited too long to file his claims. He said public revelations of the surveillance had harmed his reputation and cut business opportunities, and he had asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue.
In April, the Trump administration separately agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle claims brought by Mr. Page against the federal government. The Justice Department issued a statement then saying the inquiry into Mr. Page had relied on flawed and uncorroborated information, calling it a political sham.
That action, however, did not end Mr. Page’s attempts to sue former government officials as individuals, an effort that concludes with Monday’s action by the Supreme Court. The court’s action was announced as part of the publication of a routine list of cases the justices have agreed to hear or declined to accept. The justices did not include an explanation.
