U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York on Friday rejected an effort by former President Donald Trump to amend his answer in a defamation lawsuit to assert a claim under New York’s revised anti-SLAPP law, finding that Trump waited too long to make his motion and sought it “at least in part in bad faith.”

“[R]ejection of defendant’s position is not warranted only by logic,” Kaplan wrote in Friday’s opinion. “His position simply is wrong.”