Lawyers for President Donald Trump earlier this week rejected Pulitzer Prize board members' attempt to halt his defamation lawsuit over 2018 Washington Post and New York Times Russia probe reporting awards, calling the defendants' request for a yearslong stay an "analytically confused and wrong" bid to cling to immunity that belongs to the chief executive alone.

The brief, filed Monday on the Florida Supreme Court's docket, asked the Sunshine State's top court to jettison for lack of jurisdiction the petition of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander and The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum, among more than a dozen other board members named in Trump's suit.

According to attorneys with the firm Weber, Crabb, & Wein, P.A., the petitioner-defendants' call for a stay until Trump'

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