Supreme Court Rejects Judicial Watch Call for Hillary Deposition

The Supreme Court declined conservative legal group Judicial Watch's request to revisit whether Hillary Clinton should be required to answer questions, under oath, about her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. Forbes Magazine reported, 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, and other records in connection with the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Highlighting the State Department's "mishandling of the case," a Ronald Reagan-appointed U.S. District Court judge in March 2020 took the extraordinary step of granting Judicial Watch's discovery request in the lawsuit, and the order entered included a provision requiring Clinton to sit for a deposition. However, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously overturned that ruling in August, granting a writ of mandamus to prevent the ordered deposition...MORE