The Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch has announced that they have filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the US Supreme Court asking it to uphold a court ruling requiring Hillary Clinton to testify under oath about her emails.
Last year a federal court ordered a deposition of Hillary Clinton on her emails and Benghazi attack records in response to a FOIA lawsuit that had been filed by Judicial Watch.
The GateWay Pundit reports: Hillary Clinton’s lawyers immediately filed an emergency appeal to stop her court-ordered email testimony.
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Clinton’s team filed an emergency writ of mandamus to avoid testifying and the DC Court of Appeals granted her relief in August.
Judicial Watch refuses to back down and is now taking the fight to the US Supreme Court.
Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a petition for writ of certiorari (“cert petition”) with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to take up its challenge to an appeals court order exempting Hillary Clinton from testifying under oath about her emails. Judicial Watch argues the court should hear its case because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in giving Clinton unwarranted special treatment that conflicts both with Supreme Court precedent and the precedents of other courts of appeal, including its own.
As Judicial Watch argues in its cert petition, granting Clinton this extraordinary relief flies in the face of the D.C. Circuit’s own precedent, most recently in the Michael Flynn case, who, unlike Clinton, was denied mandamus relief.
Judicial Watch also argues that the appellate decision allowing Hillary Clinton to avoid testimony dramatically undermines the Freedom of Information Act:
In effect, it eliminates any discovery into the actions of agency officials or employees other than FOIA officers – walling off from any inquiry officials or employees who may be less than honest with FOIA officers or who might seek to conceal agency records from FOIA officers to prevent disclosure to the public, among other matters plainly relevant to an agency’s good faith in responding to FOIA requests.
“No court should undermine the Freedom of Information Act and the rule of law by giving Hillary Clinton special protection from having to testify about her emails,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Supreme Court should cast politics aside and affirm that Hillary Clinton is not above the law.”
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Niamh Harris
The courts are corrupt Thats all there is to it Anyone who diesnt understand isnt credible .Including all of the tens of thousands of lawyers attorneys barristers judges and department of justice employees ,police and military .
We can all agree the u.s. court system has been ruined and corrupted by the Democratic party, Activist liberal judges with lifelong jobs and zero accountability. The Scotus is the worst lf all, abdicating their responsibility for decades now.
Hillary Clinton’s crimes are horrendous and many, but she walks free.
John Roberts won’t allow it…no standing or, his ADD kicks in. He couldn’t wait to adopt thru normal channels, had to call his good times buddy, Jeffrey Epstein to get his kids via the pedo trafficking network ?
This nation needs Judicial Watch now more than ever.