Federal judge blocks access to redacted Hillary Clinton emails
Source: International Business Times
22 FEB 2017 AT 08:38 ET
Judicial Watch, a conservative group attempting to get access to State Department records related to Hillary Clintons email scandal, was denied permission on Tuesday after a federal judge ruled that the documents dont indicate any evidence of government malfeasance.
The judgment concluding that none of the redacted emails suggested any hints of nefarious government action or motive in responding to that conduct, came in response to a lawsuit by Judicial Watch on May 6, 2015, after it made a Freedom of Information Act request on March 17, 2015.
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, who himself reviewed the 30 disputed records, wrote: the Court
.concludes that Judicial Watch has not provided a sufficient basis to believe that the information withheld by the State Department would shed light on any government misconduct.
Details about internal government documents are usually exempt from declassification under the FOIA, but Judicial Watch said that the records were proof of alleged wrongdoing.
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)as an honorable American famously once said, and as all decent and honest American agree.
Republicans can just go jam the treachery and traitory of their degenerate family-values role model Comrade Casino and his Cabal of Cronies up their freaking borscht-stained kiesters.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Archae
(46,301 posts)In fact they have sued each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Watch#Larry_Klayman_lawsuits
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)It was pretty hilarious.
But I never pass up the opportunity to remind DU of the support of the likes of JW and Klayman.
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)Enough with the freakin' emails. Get over it, RWNJs, for once in your misbegotten lives!!
yellowcanine
(35,694 posts)It is long past time for these fishing expeditions into Hillary Clinton's emails to stop.
Marthe48
(16,908 posts)If they really want to be in the headlines, go after the traitor Putin puppet trump,and all of his traitorous staff. Any repug who can man up and go after the real criminals could make it interesting--take bets on how many traitors can be brought down. Compare it to Watergate's catch.
Nwgirl503
(406 posts)2018/2020 the conversations are going to be how the Repugs fell so fast. If they'd just get a backbone and not be so obvious about their power and money grab, they'd secure a lot of the swing votes they all received. All they're doing is ensuring the pendulum is going to swing back Dem. And they could do it without all the gerrymandering, voter suppression tactics and illegal, backroom BS.
Not that I'm encouraging them to smarten up, but damn if people aren't shortsighted.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)On the other, can they just leave Hillary alone now? They won. Then they went after pizza gate, they need to find another fucking windmill.
BainsBane
(53,016 posts)The right succeeded in destroying her politically. They won. Now move the fuck on.