Gayles serves on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where Trump's lawsuit was filed. He was appointed to the court by former President Barack Obama in 2014, becoming the first openly gay Black man to serve on the federal bench.

The demise of the president's case against the journalist offers a broader lesson about the benefits of fighting back — and the folly of appeasement.

Here’s what President Donald Trump would have to prove to win his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal.

A federal judge will hear arguments today in Harvard's lawsuit over the Trump administration's cuts to the university's research funding. The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge New York to release grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

He has also sued ABC News, which agreed to pay $15 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.

Obama-appointed Florida judge to preside over Trump’s $10B suit against Murdoch and WSJ - Former prosecutor Darrin P. Gayles was unanimously confirmed to the bench by the Senate in 2014

Plus: Trump sued the Wall Street Journal Friday over the newspaper's report that his name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for Epstein.

Jen Psaki reports on Donald Trump's spiraling freak-out over the public interest in the investigation files on notorious pedophile and close friend of Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, with Trump going so far as to condemn his own followers as "stupid,