“An attorney for Jason Miller, who is serving as a top adviser to President Donald Trump’s campaign after playing a similar role four years ago, urged a federal appeals court Friday to revive Miller’s libel suit over a report that he slipped an abortion pill into a smoothie he gave to a woman he had gotten pregnant” Politico reports.

“The now-defunct website Splinter disclosed in September 2018 that another Trump staffer, A.J. Delgado, leveled the startling claim in a Florida court filing related to a custody dispute involving a child Miller fathered with Delgado. Delgado said the abortion pill incident involved a second woman whose identity she knew, but did not disclose in the court submission. Miller has vehemently denied the allegation, which his attorney Shane Vogt called ‘indisputably false’ during oral arguments Friday held by videoconference with the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Bad publicity stemming from the Splinter report as well as other details of Miller’s acrimonious dispute with Delgado led to him being dropped as paid CNN analyst shortly after the allegations emerged. A few weeks later, Miller filed a $100 million defamation suit against Splinter’s parent company, Gizmodo Media, and the reporter on the story, Katherine Kreuger. Miami-based U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga threw out the suit almost a year ago, holding that New York law applied and that the media outlet’s report was legally privileged as a fair and accurate summary of a judicial proceeding.”