A court on Thursday declined to issue an immediate restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) requested by a woman who accused him of harassing and threatening her after their break-up, according to a court document reviewed by The Hill, but ordered both Mills and the woman to appear at a hearing later in the month to consider the matter further.

Lindsey Langston, a Florida Republican state committee official who was crowned Miss United States 2024, filed the petition for an injunction earlier this week, according to lawyer Anthony Sabatini who has consulted with her.

She separately told law enforcement last month that Mills had threatened to release explicit photos and videos of her, according to a sheriff’s country incident report revealed on Wednesday.

Sabatini told The Hill that Langston has spoken not only to the Columbia County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office as detailed in the incident report, but that she also sat for an interview with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. FDLE confirmed it had received the incident report from the county but said it “does not comment on any active inquiries or investigations."

Mills has said that those claims “are false and misrepresent the nature of my interactions,” and in........

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