Posted on 07/22/2015 8:22:17 AM PDT by mandaladon
A federal judge Tuesday blocked a scheduled deposition of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, in a civil lawsuit that claims the Clinton Foundation operated as a criminal organization.
The conservative watchdog group Freedom Watch, which brought the lawsuit against the Clintons, had scheduled separate video-taped depositions for them next week.
U.S. District Court Judge Donald Middlebrooks granted a protective order requested by the Clintons’ lawyers that blocked the depositions until the court resolves their pending motion to dismiss the case and halt discovery. The judge’s order did not include the reasoning for his decision.
The case, filed by Freedom Watch founder and former federal prosecutor Larry Klayman alleges the Clintons committed criminal violations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), and that Mrs. Clinton covered up the crimes destroying her personal emails sent during her time as Secretary of State.
She would have given a deposition on the morning of July 28 in Washington, and Mr. Clinton would have give his the following morning, according to copies of the notices of deposition reviewed by The Washington Times.
Mrs. Clinton has been dogged by questions about her handling of email as America’s top diplomat, when she exclusively used a private email account to conduct official business and then, years later, deleted about half of the messages rather than turn them over to the Department of State.
At some point, she also wiped clean the server, permanently erasing all the messages.
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Typical legal maneuvering?
UNEXPECTED!
Typical legal maneuvering?
Any lawyer would do that. Try for dismissal at every opportunity.
Rather, typical judge (appointed BY Clinton!) protecting the democrats he was sworn to protect.
Donald M. Middlebrooks (born 1946) is currently a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
He was in private practice from 1973 to 1974 and served as General Counsel to Florida Governor Reubin Askew from 1974 to 1977. In 1997 he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as a United States District Judge and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Typical legal maneuvering?
Any lawyer would do that. Try for dismissal at every opportunity.
And of course he was appointed to the bench by BillyBob! Conflict of interest?
“The judge’s order did not include the reasoning for his decision. “
I would bet it involved a grant from the Clinton Foundation (well, one of it’s ‘unknown’ subsidiaries)
Legal?
Well, by current standards it might get passed off as "legal".
Considering that this fine judge was appointed by none other than Slick Willy hisownself, I'd just describe it as "legal /sarc".
No rea$on for deci$ion?
The federal judiciary is full of socialists whores.Like ROBERTS
Doesn't indicate corruption or favoritism or anything but trying to avoid useless litigation. If the MTD is denied the depos will go forward.
Everything is not a conspiracy.
There is a specific order in which motions must be processed. The motion Clinton’s lawyer made to dismiss takes preference.
The lawyer would be considered inept if he didn’t file the motion.
The media is simply using it as a tool to make the public think that the Clintons are without fault
Those emails are floating around out there and I’ll just bet if someone were to look in the NSA servers bases, they would find them....
...or maybe someone who was a ‘friend’ of the Clintons could come up with them?....
Another of the thousands of corrupt blackrobed tyrants masquerading as an arbiter of justice. Wretch!
The Fix is in again.
Any real judge appointed by the husband of the litigant
would realize there is an appearance of impropriety
the size of a small supernova.
But, the blackrobes rot from the head down
(plagiarizing Mr. Dukakis).
A LOT of money flying around!
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