Judge orders Hillary Clinton deposition in email flap
Source: POLITICO
A federal judge has ordered former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to sit for a sworn deposition for the first time in connection with her use of a private email account during her State Department tenure.
U.S. District Court Royce Lamberth issued the order Monday in connection with a five-and-a-half-year-old Freedom of Information Act lawsuit the conservative group Judicial Watch filed seeking emails related to the deadly 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
Clinton was previously required to submit a sworn written statement about her email use, but the depositionif it takes placewould be the first time she has had to submit to live questioning under oath on the subject.
During her four years in President Barack Obama's Cabinet, Clinton relied on a private email account and server for both her work-related and personal messages. The practice led to a storm of controversy that roiled her 2016 presidential bid and is widely viewed as contributing to her ultimate defeat by Donald Trump.
In response to press questions during the campaign and in the sworn statement, Clinton said she kept the private account and server after taking over as secretary of state in 2009 as a matter of convenience and not to avoid FOIA or other disclosure requirements. The FBI investigated, interviewed Clinton and recommended against criminal charges, but it did find dozens of messages in her account that officials said contained highly classified information.
However, Lamberth said in his ruling Monday that the FBI probe and representations by the State Department have not adequately put to rest questions about the episode and Clinton's deposition is needed to address those concerns.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/02/hillary-clinton-email-deposition-118800
Seriously? but, but... Her e-mails? STILL?
underpants
(182,807 posts)dchill
(38,497 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Bayard
(22,075 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)FBaggins
(26,739 posts)I think this case has been lingering for a few years now - so they're well past the "does Judicial Watch have the standing to sue?" phase.
She could appeal to the DC circuit.
DENVERPOPS
(8,820 posts)No one should have rumored that she may come in as a last minute Democrat Presidential Candidate.........
Besides this serves no other purpose than to continue to gin up the TrumpHumpers and rally them around the Republican Party.....
Nikki28
(557 posts)The Dumpsters judges and (A.J Barr needs soap) courts are still beating this dead horse? This makes no sense except to confirm Trump needs to go asap.
The real crooks get off scoot free and they taunt Rumps targets. What a disgusting thing for this country.I wish the majority vote for Biden and Iran helps him flip the Senate just when Putin does his best shot.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)again. still.
azureblue
(2,146 posts)all questions have been answered. JW is using the courts for political purposes, not to seek justice. This is vexatious litigation, and this is the grounds HC has to appeal on. She is now a private person. She can now turn around and sue them, and get a pre trial discovery. Which would expose the fact that JW is a wing of the GOP.
bluestarone
(16,941 posts)WE cannot get a subpoena answered. BUT these fuckers can destroy HONEST PEOPLE'S lives!!
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Rural_Progressive
(1,105 posts)Say it all together:
Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi
I knew you could.
Here's a surprise, he's a Ronnie Raygun appointee
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)(for when images return)
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,942 posts)Just forget about Hillary.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)No one has to respond to ANY court order.
She should make them try to force her. And STILL refuse.
If played appropriately, the optics would be through the roof.
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)... because, after all, they had the example of Hillary to know what to avoid, right? So any breaking of the law in this regard by the Cons and the RepubliCons is willful and deliberate.
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)azureblue
(2,146 posts)All it takes now is for someone to bring action against Ivanka. And cite this ruling.
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)Retrumplicans refusing subpoenas is always portrayed by the MSM as "just a different kind of politician"
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)hellno45
(67 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)riversedge
(70,225 posts)maxrandb
(15,330 posts)We've spent generations defending and supporting the independence of the judicial branch.
Retrumplicans have spent generations turning the court into just one more branch of government that should be a weapon of partisan power.
It wouldn't matter to have a Left Judicial Watch, because this judge would look at two identical cases and order a deposition for Democrats, and dismiss a request for deposition from a Retrumplican.
And you know what? The Retrumplicans aren't even bothering to try to hide it anymore.
The Retrumplicans and their MAGAt voters would cheer making being a Democrat a criminal act!.
They are so far up to their eyeballs in illegal and corrupt crap that they will kill people in the streets to prevent their crimes from seeing the light of day.
Mark my words. Using the "courts" and foreign governments to pursue criminal investigations of their political enemies is JUST THE START.
Submariner
(12,504 posts)it works fine for the RWNJs.
iluvtennis
(19,860 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)First, Royce Lamberth is long time partisan Republican activist. He has long used his position to help Republican politicians and to hurt Democrats.
Second, it is absurd that a right wing organization like Judicial Watch could be given standing in this matter, much less the right to depose a former Secretary of State.
Royce Lamberth, like William Barr, is properly identified as a fascist.
I hope this decision can be appealed. It is an absurd legal ruling.
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)I guess Republicans need 9 email investigations.
question everything
(47,479 posts)Is this Lambert one of the Turtle's recent confirmation?
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Horrible people continue to act horribly.
blm
(113,061 posts)He is no judge, and certainly NOT an honorable judge.
nt
StevieM
(10,500 posts)If this country succumbs to fascism, right wing judges will likely be a major part of it.
It is terrifying that we live in a country that has men like David Sentelle and Royce Lamberth on the bench.
Lulu KC
(2,565 posts)Seriously.
But her emails.
Jarqui
(10,125 posts)And other stuff, too.
dajoki
(10,678 posts)more distraction and pure hate, they will never give up. Illegitimate is the one who needs to testify under oath but we know he never will. What a sad state of affairs.
DENVERPOPS
(8,820 posts)Now it is Gays, Guns, God, AND.....Hillary emails......................
they have used it for years, decades, over and over again to get their voters to turn out...........
Mosby
(16,311 posts)Regan got away with it.
Joinfortmill
(14,424 posts)I don't know how these cowardly bullies look their wives and daughters in the face. Horrifying.
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)Senior status means he is semi-retired. Appointment by Raygun means - well, you know what it means.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)oh who am I kidding, it will take beyond any of our natural lives to get to the bottom of at rats nest
FM123
(10,053 posts)Every time you think they have hit rock bottom, it's false bottom.
karin_sj
(810 posts)The Revenge Tour of the Orange Parasite has begun...
justgamma
(3,666 posts)that they will try to frame her just to please their master.
agincourt
(1,996 posts)the GOP will be trying to haul her in for questioning about Benghazi and the email server. It will never, never end.
Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)steventh
(2,143 posts)According to Wikipedia, J. Royce Lambeth is a "visiting judge in San Antonio for several months per year." I hope Secretary Clinton appeals. And if that doesn't get a good result, appeal again. Delay until after November. Which we all hope will change everything.
VMA131Marine
(4,139 posts)WASHINGTON A federal appeals court Friday rebuked a lower-court judge for declaring that President Clinton broke the law when he released friendly letters from former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey, who had gone on national television to accuse the president of making unwanted sexual advances.
The appellate judges said that an opinion by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth in March was inappropriate and gratuitous and that he should not have invoked sweeping pronouncements on alleged criminal activity by Clinton and his aides.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)answering questions posed by Dowdy-hair Gowdy and others. Just submit the transcript.
Hotler
(11,424 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)And he nearly always gets overruled on appeal. Some things will never change.