MIAMI — After three months of high-level legal wrangling, the Florida Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request from a criminal defense attorney to order The Florida Bar to investigate a complaint claiming U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi violated the state’s ethics rules as the nation’s top law enforcement official.

Five court justices, in a one-paragraph ruling, said South Florida lawyer Jon May “failed to show a clear legal right to the relief requested” and denied his petition on behalf of about 70 liberal-leaning scholars, attorneys and former judges. The justices also rejected his request for an oral argument before the court in Tallahassee.

The coalition’s bid submitted by May was always a long shot because the seven justices on Florida’s high court were all appointed by Republica

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