President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on his defamation case against cable news giant CNN. In a filing submitted on Aug. 14 but docketed on Thursday, Trump told the justices that “CNN falsely and maliciously portrayed” him “as a knowing liar who fabricated objections to the 2020 election, lacked supporting evidence, and deliberately deceived the American people.”

The dispute has its roots in CNN’s coverage of the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. Trump contended that when CNN used the phrase “the Big Lie” to describe his insistence that the election had been stolen, and that he was the actual winner, it did so to link him with Adolf Hitler and Nazi propaganda – which, Trump said, was defamation.

A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, dismissed Trump’s case. In an eight-page, unsigned opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld that ruling.