Posted on 01/18/2019 5:21:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The ongoing partial government shutdown is delaying the inquiry into whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought to evade public record laws with her use of a private email account.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth agreed to the conservative Judicial Watch’s request to depose multiple individuals about the State Department’s response to the deadly 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, and whether the former secretary of state sought to evade the Freedom of Information Act with her private email server.
However, due to the partial government shutdown, Lamberth agreed to put the inquiry on hold while Justice and State Department employees are furloughed, impacting their ability to comply with the request.
“To respond to Plaintiff’s interrogatories and document requests (including one that will require searches of State’s email records for 24 officials or former officials) will require not only members of the Department of Justice’s litigation team, all of whom are currently furloughed, but also State attorneys and employees from various bureaus and components who are likewise furloughed,” Justice Department lawyers wrote, according to Politico. “The Government will require an even broader array of State employees – most of whom are currently furloughed – to prepare for the numerous depositions described in the Discovery Order.”
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So they are selectively slowing down cases and using the shutdown as an excuse?
FILE A WRIT OF MANDAMUS TO COMPEL THEM TO DO THEIR JOBS!
I AM SO GD SICK OF THESE F*ING LIBERAL COURTS!!!
And what was the excuse before the shut down?
Ok, so I assume they shut down investigations of Pres. Trump too then, right ? /s
Now boys.
No conspiracy theories, OK?
/sarc
Gee, good thing we have Constitutional Rule of Law Socialist Mob Rule here in Amerika!
“Partial government shutdown delays query into Hillary Clinton’s private email server”
As if anything serious is going on in this rmegards.
p
Trump should end the shutdown
by firing all the non-essentials.
Thanks, FrankR!
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