Supreme Court leaves in place a ruling blocking Hillary Clinton deposition over private email server

By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN

(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a lower court order that blocked the conservative group Judicial Watch from deposing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about her use of a private email account in a lawsuit associated to the 2012 assault on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

A federal appeals courtroom ruled last August that Clinton cannot be compelled to appear for a deposition in a lawsuit about State Department emails, a ruling that got here after a federal judge said earlier in 2020 that the previous secretary should seem for a deposition in the case.

The court’s denial on Monday was unsigned.

Judicial Watch had requested to depose Clinton, prime aide Cheryl Mills and different former State Department workers in a case searching for public entry to the emails from the State Department.

Clinton’s emails have been already investigated by Congress, the State Department inspector normal and the FBI, and she or he beforehand gave written solutions in one other lawsuit, the appeals courtroom famous final yr.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton claimed in a assertion Monday that Clinton “acquired particular safety from each the courts and regulation enforcement,” including that “Americans would by no means have recognized about Hillary Clinton’s email and associated pay for play scandals however for Judicial Watch’s diligence.”

News broke in March 2015 that Clinton used private email addresses related to a privately owned server, somewhat than a authorities email, throughout her 4 years as President Barack Obama’s first-term secretary of state. The email controversy turned a problem that hounded Clinton’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign.

In 2019, the State Department launched particulars of an investigation saying that there was no “persuasive proof” of widespread mishandling of categorized info in the controversy surrounding Clinton’s use of a private email server.

This story has been up to date with remark from Judicial Watch.

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