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FOIA News: SCOTUS declines to hear Clinton email case

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Supreme Court Rejects Judicial Watch’s Final Attempt to Depose Hillary Clinton About Her Emails

By Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime, Mar. 29th, 2021

The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday declined a conservative legal group’s request to revisit whether Hillary Clinton should be required to answer questions about her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

In an unsigned order issued without comment, the justices declined to take up Judicial Watch’s petition stemming from the organization’s lawsuit over the government’s response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The group had sought to depose Clinton and one of her top aides, Cheryl Mills, over electronic communications in connection with the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

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