Judge Halts Depositions For Bill And Hillary Clinton

[Purveyor]

Source: Politico

A federal judge has blocked a conservative activist's plans to force presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton to testify in depositions stemming from a lawsuit claiming the Clinton Foundation operated as a racketeering enterprise shaking down donors in exchange for official favors.

U.S. District Court Judge Donald Middlebrooks issued an order Tuesday barring legal gadfly Larry Klayman from proceeding with his plans to conduct videotaped depositions of the Clintons in Washington next week. Middlebrooks's order (posted here) does not offer a reason for the ruling.

Lawyers for the Clintons and for the foundation have asked Middlebrooks to toss out the case and to halt discovery while he considers whether the lawsuit should be dismissed. The Clinton lawyers contend Klayman has a history of filing meritless lawsuits and that he should not be allowed to demand evidence in connection with a case that is likely to be dismissed.

Klayman's lawsuit alleges that Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state interfered with responses to Freedom of Information Act requests he filed and that the Clintons used the system to obscure a scheme to demand to trade official favors for donations to the Clinton Foundation.


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[randys1]

1. And Issa goes merrily on, the criminal fuck. And The RNC calls a man who left legs and arms

on the battlefield, a traitor

It goes on and on

[geek tragedy]

2. Very sensible decision. Screw Larry Klayman. nt

[virtualobserver]

3. Larry Klayman is obsessed with the Clintons

It should be a criminal offense to harass someone with lawsuits.

[cosmicone]

4. Clintons could countersue him and take his deposition

but that opens them up for discovery as well. He is just a little chihuahua barking at an elephant. Best ignored and dismissed.

[virtualobserver]

5. True, but God it must be annoying for them.

Just hearing Klayman's name makes me mad

[cosmicone]

6. Clintons have been under one investigation after another for 25 years

Their only fault? They rained on the GOP parade of 16 years of repuke rule under which they could have appointed 7 scalias to SCOTUS.

Thanks to Bill Clinton's presidency (and then Obama's), we have some liberal leaning rulings lately.

Now Hillary is our best chance to have 16 years of democratic rule and 7 liberal justices on SCOTUS (Alito and Roberts are too young to croak in the next 16 years.)

[virtualobserver]

7. Obviously, you realize that I have a slightly different preference on the Prez....

I do worry that Scalia is some sort of evil immortal being.

[cosmicone]

8. I respect your support of the ideal against easily achievable n/t

[virtualobserver]

9. if the ideal doesn't work out, I will be 100% behind the easily achievable. n/t

[cosmicone]

11. The problem is that the ideal has a very remote chance of winning the general election ..

Over the past several decades, the country has repeatedly elected centrists except the 1980 and 2004 elections where there were extenuating circumstances. Too far left or too far right is poison in the race for independents.

HRC is immune from attacks because any attack on her is "seen that already" ... not so with Bernie .. especially when the mantra os socialist is repeated over and over and over.

[KoKo]

13. Yes...but some of us are compelled by overiding Altruistic Concerns of a Lifetime to hope

for the "Ideal" given what the alternative has given us for Decades.

We keep at it because we are compelled to because of our convictions and experience. Bernie is GRASSROOTS.... In these times its even more important.

[TBF]

14. Bernie has been independent for 20+ years

and the "evil commie socialist" labeling has become pretty ludicrous given that anyone watching FOX news will slap the label on anyone to the left of Ronald Reagan. I think we're ok there.

[virtualobserver]

15. Bernie has a different strategy and I see this as a year when the pendulum swings left

If his strategy can work well enough to actually defeat Hillary, who I view as the only political heavyweight in the entire 2016 race, then I believe that he can win the GE.

But if not, in the GE , the Republicans have no credibility, and they will have so much less after the Clown Car tours the nation.

In Bill's final year we had a $236 billion dollar surplus......The Bush-Gore Debates were over how to spend the trillions in surpluses. Bush did figure it out, as he left office we had a $1.3 trillion dollar deficit and we were losing 700,000 jobs a month.....how could you put possibly put Repubs back in charge?........I swear that this TV ad writes itself.

[tazkcmo]

18. Even as they campaigned as Progressives. n/t

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

27. Over the past several decades, the country has repeatedly elected centrists

That's the problem! Now you want to elect another one. You do know the definition of insanity, don't you?

[cosmicone]

28. You are misconstruing the post

The country includes 66% who are NOT democrats

If we want our side to win POTUS, we need to offer the 66% a centrist and not a radical left socialist no matter how endearing he may be to us. If we don't do it, the other side will offer a centrist like Jeb Bush or Kasich and will WIN.

You do want a democrat to win the White House don't you?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

32. Your "theory" is wrong. Bernie will win it all - just wait and see.

[cosmicone]

33. We said that about Mondale, Dukakis and Kerry too. n/t

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

37. You can't compare any centrists to Bernie. We've never had someone like this before.

You are so damn sure of yourself. You win a shiny new baby Unicorn!

[Fred Sanders]

12. Who pays the Clinton's back for having the legal costs to defend these frivolous lawsuits by a lawyer for the

GOP who does it for free, of course pretending not to be.

Legal trolls are a bad as social media trolls or fake video trolls or politician trolls.

[still_one]

10. Larry Klayman should really be committed

[Archae]

16. Klayman is not only an incompetent lawyer...

He molested his own kids, and screwed up many other ways as well.

He's a regular at WND, which should tell you how far-right he is.

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/05/213-larry-klayman.html

[msanthrope]

17. Shall I repost the thread where DUers laud Klayman? Or just rely on Google? nt

[geek tragedy]

19. The one started by the Putin cheerleader who compares Obama supporters

to Nazis?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014506430

[joshcryer]

20. Wow...

I got at least a quarter of those people reccing that dreck on ignore.

[msanthrope]

22. You read my mind....just take a look at that rec list.....nt

[MADem]

21. Klayman is definitely a few bricks shy of a load. He's a relentless gadfly. nt

[Gothmog]

23. Larry Klayman is an idiot

[candelista]

24. I'd like to know more about the Clinton foundation.

Was money donated in exchange for favors while Hillary was Secretary of State? The Republicans will certainly raise this question in the general election. Hillary is going to have to deal with it sometime.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. As long as the polls show her way ahead, ...

... she won't have to deal with it, won't have to answer question.

And so far, she's unbeatable.

[candelista]

26. +1. nt

[still_one]

30. Nah, you just want to play conspiracy tin foil advocate. Perhaps you should get on the Benghazi

bandwagon while you are at it

[candelista]

34. Spoken like a true Hillary loyalist!

You remind me of her personality.

[still_one]

36. You have no idea where I am coming from

[still_one]

29. Larry Klayman and Orly Taitz should get hitched. It is a match made in hell

[Gothmog]

31. Larry Klayman is an idiot

[Beacool]

35. Ahhh, Larry Klayman...........

A blast from the past if there ever was one. That RW nut job is like a pitbull with a bone. He has filed dozens of lawsuits against the Clintons and not won one. Most of them get thrown out of court.