Hillary Clinton’s email scandal has been living on in the courts system thanks to a lawsuit from Judicial Watch. As Politico (unapprovingly) reported in December, “Clinton’s nemeses at the conservative legal group Judicial Watch pleaded with U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth for a chance to depose Clinton personally and to conduct a second round of questioning of Clinton’s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills.”
Politico attempted to cast doubt on if any such deposition would ever occur, writing that Lamberth didn’t immediately rule on the request but “repeatedly expressed concern with a continuing drip, drip, drip of Clinton messages.”
Whatever concerns judge Lamberth may have had couldn’t have been that great after all – because he just ordered Hillary to be deposed, and he isn’t buying any of her excuses.
According to Fox News: A federal judge Monday granted a request from conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch to have former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sit for a sworn deposition to answer questions about her use of a private email server to conduct government business.
Clinton has argued that she has already answered questions about this and should not have to do so again, but D.C. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth said in his ruling that her past responses left much to be desired.
“As extensive as the existing record is, it does not sufficiently explain Secretary Clinton’s state of mind when she decided it would be an acceptable practice to set up and use a private server to conduct State Department business,” Lamberth said.
The judge went on to recognize that while Clinton responded to written questions in a separate case, “those responses were either incomplete, unhelpful, or cursory at best. Simply put her responses left many more questions than answers.” Lamberth said that using written questions this time “will only muddle any understanding of Secretary Clinton’s state of mind and fail to capture the full picture, this delaying the final disposition of this case even further.”
The ruling comes after Judicial Watch revealed at a December 2019 status conference that the FBI released “approximately thirty previously undisclosed Clinton emails,” and that the State Department “failed to fully explain” where they came from.
Meanwhile, Hillary has been dodging being served in a defamation lawsuit from Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard. She won’t have any luck dodging this.
